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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
“I just try to tell it how it is, the good, the bad, the love, the heartbreak. That’s all I know how to do.”
Journalist David Grann was rummaging through the electronic files of a British archive in 2016, researching one of his pet obsessions -- mutinies -- when he came across an astonishing tale.
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Journalist David Grann happened upon the tale of the HMS Wager, which wrecked off Chile in 1741 during a treasure-hunting mission. A few dozen people survived, and it was one castaway's journal that gripped him. The story, Grann says, is “a story about the disintegration of a floating civilization.”