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Apr 14, 2023 · THE WAGER: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | By David Grann | Illustrated | 329 pp. | Doubleday | $30 Jennifer Szalai is the nonfiction book critic for The Times. More about Jennifer Szalai
"The Wager" by David Grann is an enthralling masterpiece that transported me to the treacherous world of shipwrecks, mutiny, and murder. The link to the audiobook can be found here The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. Grann's eloquent prose painted vivid imagery, allowing me to immerse myself in the harrowing journey of the ...
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Apr 17, 2023 · In his new book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder Grann picks up a tale set in the 1740s, a decade when Spain and England—vying to subject native peoples, control the world’s mineral riches and bank the wealth produced by enslaved laborers—sent shiploads of men to square off on the high seas. Those imperial encounters ...
Apr 18, 2023 · A TALE OF SHIPWRECK, MUTINY AND MURDER. A brisk, absorbing history and a no-brainer for fans of the author’s suspenseful historical thrillers. The author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z returns with a rousing story of a maritime scandal. In 1741, the British vessel the Wager, pressed into service during England’s war ...
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Apr 18, 2023 · 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.
Apr 17, 2023 · By Michael Hill. Published 7:49 AM PDT, April 17, 2023. “The Wager: A Take of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” by David Grann (Doubleday) The Wager, a British war ship, crashed onto rocks amid stormy seas off the coast of Patagonia in 1741. Sailors on a secret wartime mission had already dealt with typhus, lice, blinding squalls, frostbite ...
The Wager is unadorned, almost pure, horror-filled plot, without the usual Grannian first-person moments, a tightly written, relentless, blow-by-blow account that is hard to put down, even as there are sometimes frustrating narrative gaps, a result of the limits of nonfiction grappling with 280-year-old events. For all the hours we spend with ...
