The Wager
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'A tour de force' Wall Street JournalFrom the international
bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY
OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder,
culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On
28th January 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 chasing a Spanish treasure-filled
galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast
of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation,
built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days,
traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas.They were greeted as
heroes. Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft
landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three
castaways and they had a very different story to tell.The thirty
sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers.
The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a
tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. 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.
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David Grann ,
Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Simon & Schuster Ltd
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