A thrilling account of a shipwreck in the Pacific in 1741
“The Wager” may be David Grann’s best book yet | Culture
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“The Wager” may be David Grann’s best book yet | Culture
The author’s latest book, “The Wager,” investigates the mysteries surrounding an 18th-century maritime disaster off Cape Horn.
'The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,' by 'Killers of the Flower Moon' author David Grann, follows a British warship shadowed by mutiny, storms and more existential threats.
Author Nigel Pickford, a salvage expert, recounts the sinking of the Gloucester in vivid detail and offers various possible causes
An excerpt from “The Wager,” which reconstructs an eighteenth-century British naval expedition whose catastrophic end inspired numerous conflicting accounts—and influenced the work of Charles Darwin and Herman Melville.