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It all began in 1731 when Robert Jenkins, the captain of the Rebecca, had his ear sliced off by Juan de León Fandiño of the Spanish patrol boat La Isabela. Storming the British brig in the Caribbean, Fandiño accused Jenkins of smuggling sugar from Spanish colonies. He would cut King George’s ear off too, Fandiño

In 1740, the 28-gun ship HMS Wager was wrecked off the coast of an uninhabited island in South America. Its crew turned to in-fighting and cannibalism as they tried to survive.

David Granns "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" -- the story of the shipwreck and its aftermath -- features scenery-chewing characters, unexpected twists and an almost unimaginable amount of human misery. Grann will discuss his book May 4 at an author event at Yellow Box Theatre in Naperville.

New masterpiece from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z is as much about literature as adventure

The author of "The Wager" and the New York Times bestseller "Killers of the Flower Moon" will make an appearance at the Westerville Library on May 3.

David Granns "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" -- the story of the shipwreck and its aftermath -- features scenery-chewing characters, unexpected twists and an almost unimaginable amount of human misery. Grann will discuss his book May 4 at an author event at Yellow Box Theatre in Naperville.

David Grann's The Wager, the true story of the titular British warship's 1741 wreck on a desolate island south of Chile, has much to say about 18th-century naval life, the survival impulse, republicanism, and the breakdown of humanity under pressure—if you make it past the first half-dozen or so chapters.

To write his latest book, David Grann traveled to the remote Pacific island where 18th century sailors turned to mutiny and murder. "A voyage always reveals the soul," he tells Esquire.

Survivors of the 18th-century crash of the HMS Wager undertook the perilous task of salvaging what was left of the vessel. Then, mutiny followed.

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder