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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.
Author David Grann tells the story of an 18th-century British warship that wrecked along the coast of Patagonia. The survivors sailed thousands of miles to safety, and later faced charges of mutiny.
Author David Grann tells the story of an 18th-century British warship that wrecked along the coast of Patagonia. The survivors sailed thousands of miles to safety, and later faced charges of mutiny.
Steve Inskeep talks to David Grann about his retelling of the dramatic Wager Mutiny of 1741.
Grann, the author of thinking-person’s adventures including “The Lost City of Z” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (soon to be a Martin Scorsese movie), has a rare gift for applying the rigors of narrative nonfiction to the stuff of myth and legend.