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John Byron was a sixteen-year-old midshipman on the Wager.
An eighteenth-century painting of a British press gang
David Cheap, the Centurions first lieutenant, dreamed of becoming a captain.
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
Life of a man-of-war: 1742 medical diagram for how to amputate limbs
A burial at sea
A logbook from the Centurion, with entries detailing horrific disease and storms
An albatross off Cape Horn
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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