Page 2 - John Bulkeley News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

David Grann's latest book The Wager, A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder tells the story of the disastrous voyage of the 28-gun frigate The Wager across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn as part of a Royal Navy flotilla to attack Spanish shipping in the Pacific during the War of Jenkin's Ear. It is a dramatic change from his previous book Killers of the Flower Moon, set in the rolling hills and open prairie of Osage County that runs north from Tulsa, Oklahoma and dealing with the murders of members of the Osage tribe in the 1920s over the rights to the oil that was discovered on th...

From the first sentence, Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story, to the last, Nothing else remains of the ferocious

Read any good books lately?

David Grann’s latest book recounts an 18th century shipwreck and the life and death struggles of its survivors.

To write The Wager, David Grann sifted through 280-year-old documents to sort fact from fake news.