08 THE WAGER by David Grann
General:
Name: 08 THE WAGER by David Grann
Format: epub
Size: 57.39 MB
Book:
Title: The Wager
Author: David Grann
Language: English
Year: 2023
Subjects: Awards, History, Transportation, Military History, European History, Ships & Shipbuilding, World History, British & Commonwealth – Armed Forces, British History – General & Miscellaneous, Navy & Naval History, Exploration & Discovery, General & Miscellaneous Military History, British History – Military History, Great Britain – Royal Navy & Marines, Ships – History, Shipwrecks & Underwater Exploration, War Crimes, 2023 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalists, Barnes & Noble’s Best History Books of 2023, Esquire’s 20 Best Books of 2023, Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2023, March 2025 Barnes & Noble Monthly Picks
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780385534277
Total pages: 352
Description:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling 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 tour de force of narrative nonfiction.” –The Wall Street Journal
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…
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