The Wager; A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, Grann, David. Published by Doubleday, New York, 2023. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 329pp. with illustrations. Burgundy boards with illustrated and mapped endpapers. In fine condition.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.
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…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
