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19 de jun. de 2024 · The Wager by David Grann. The survivors, along with their captain David Cheap, found themselves stranded on an island near Patagonia, later named Wager Island. The situation worsened as some survivors resorted to robbing and killing each other, and food supplies became scarce.
19 de jun. de 2024 · The Wager is a true story that explores the 18th-century shipwreck of the British naval ship named the Wager during the War of Jenkins’ Ear. The survivors, led by Captain David Cheap, find themselves stranded on an island near Patagonia, facing challenges like food shortages & internal conflicts.
12 de jun. de 2024 · The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his ...
21 de jun. de 2024 · 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 oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.
Há 4 dias · It’s The Wager, by David Grahm, author of Killers of the Flower Moon. The story revolves around a British warship that was part of a small expedition to seize a Spanish silver galleon, but which ran aground during its passage of Cape Horn, stranding the remaining crew.
24 de jun. de 2024 · The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. Who is telling the truth and what actually happened on the Wager and after it sunk? Grann uses journal entries and documents that survived and retells the tail of the journey of the Wager and the crew members on board.
22 de jun. de 2024 · Titled THE WAGER, a tale of SHIPWRECK, MUTINY and MURDER, this is a gripping read, penned by David Grann, bestselling author of the novel and recently aired tv series, Killers of the Flower Moon. The Wager seemed doomed from the start.
