• Complain

David Grann - The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Here you can read online David Grann - The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2023, publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, genre: Adventure. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

David Grann The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  • Book:
    The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2023
  • Rating:
    4 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 80
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

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.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 Majestys 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. Granns recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick OBrian, 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 Granns work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.

David Grann: author's other books


Who wrote The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Contents
Landmarks
Print Page List
John Byron was a sixteen-year-old midshipman on the Wager - photo 1
John Byron was a sixteen-year-old midshipman on the Wager An - photo 2

John Byron was a sixteen-year-old midshipman on the Wager.


An eighteenth-century painting of a British press gang - photo 3
An eighteenth-century painting of a British press gang David Cheap the - photo 4

An eighteenth-century painting of a British press gang


David Cheap the Centurions first lieutenant dreamed of becoming a captain - photo 5
David Cheap the Centurions first lieutenant dreamed of becoming a captain - photo 6

David Cheap, the Centurions first lieutenant, dreamed of becoming a captain.


An eighteenth-century painting of the Deptford dockyard where the Wager was - photo 7
An eighteenth-century painting of the Deptford dockyard where the Wager was - photo 8

An eighteenth-century painting of the Deptford dockyard, where the Wager was launched


Life of a man-of-war the machinery on a gun deck - photo 9
Life of a man-of-war the machinery on a gun deck Life of a man-of-war - photo 10

Life of a man-of-war: the machinery on a gun deck


Life of a man-of-war 1742 medical diagram for how to amputate limbs - photo 11
Life of a man-of-war 1742 medical diagram for how to amputate limbs A - photo 12

Life of a man-of-war: 1742 medical diagram for how to amputate limbs


A burial at sea - photo 13
A burial at sea A logbook from the Centurion with entries detailing - photo 14

A burial at sea


A logbook from the Centurion with entries detailing horrific disease and storms - photo 15
A logbook from the Centurion with entries detailing horrific disease and storms - photo 16

A logbook from the Centurion, with entries detailing horrific disease and storms


An albatross off Cape Horn - photo 17
An albatross off Cape Horn A Centurion officer sketched the squadron - photo 18

An albatross off Cape Horn


A Centurion officer sketched the squadron arriving in St Catherine Brazil in - photo 19
A Centurion officer sketched the squadron arriving in St Catherine Brazil in - photo 20

A Centurion officer sketched the squadron arriving in St. Catherine, Brazil, in December 1740. The Wager is the second ship from left.


The Wager before it wreckedpainted by Charles Brooking c 1744 ALSO BY - photo 21
The Wager before it wreckedpainted by Charles Brooking c 1744 ALSO BY - photo 22

The Wager before it wreckedpainted by Charles Brooking, c. 1744


ALSO BY DAVID GRANN The Lost City of Z A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the - photo 23
ALSO BY DAVID GRANN

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

The White Darkness

Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers

Copyright 2023 by David Grann All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 24

Copyright 2023 by David Grann

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.doubleday.com

DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Maps designed by Jeffrey L. Ward

Cover painting: Ships in Distress in a Storm, circa 172030, by Peter Monamy Tate, London / Art Resource, NY

Cover design by John A. Fontana

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Grann, David, author.

Title: The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutin,y and murder / David Grann.

Description: First edition. | New York: Doubleday, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022028630 (print) | LCCN 2022028631 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385534260 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385534277 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Wager (Ship) | ShipwrecksPatagonia (Argentina and Chile) | Shipwreck victimsPatagonia (Argentina and Chile) | Shipwreck victimsGreat Britain. | MutinyGreat Britain.

Classification: LCC G530.W25 G73 2023 (print) | LCC G530.W25 (ebook) | DDC 910.9164/1dc23/eng20221202

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022028630

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022028631

Ebook ISBN9780385534277

ep_prh_6.1_143280112_c0_r0

FOR KYRA, ZACHARY, AND ELLA

We are the hero of our own story.

MARY M c CARTHY

Maybe there is a beast.Maybe its only us.

WILLIAM GOLDING, LORD OF THE FLIES

Contents

_143280112_

Authors Note

I must confess that I did not witness the ship strike the rocks or the crew tie up the captain. Nor did I see firsthand the acts of deceit and murder. I have, however, spent years combing through the archival debris: the washed-out logbooks, the moldering correspondence, the half-truthful journals, the surviving records from the troubling court-martial. Most critically, I have studied the accounts published by those who were involved, who not only witnessed the events but also shaped them. I tried to gather all the facts to determine what really happened. Still, its impossible to escape the participants conflicting, and at times warring, perspectives. So instead of smoothing out every difference, or further shading the already shaded evidence, Ive tried to present all sides, leaving it to you to render the ultimate verdicthistorys judgment.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder»

Look at similar books to The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder»

Discussion, reviews of the book The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.