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Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann (2025, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307742490

ISBN-139780307742490

eBay Product ID (ePID)23073629097

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Book TitleWager : a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicMilitary / General, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Maritime History & Piracy, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)

GenreTransportation, History

AuthorDavid Grann

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.8 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal355.1334

SynopsisOn January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patchcd-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary talc to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. The Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon and had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months, built a flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly three thousand miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But thenâ€¦ six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes-they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death-for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand talc of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers., A "TOUR DE FORCE OF NARRATIVE NONFICTION" ( WSJ ) WITH OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NYT BEST SELLER LIST From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon , a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager , showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker , TIME , Smithsonian , NPR, Vulture "Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history--and imperialism--with gusto." -- Time On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance , and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.