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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.”
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.
“The Wager” is a story of resentment, insurrection, and a battle over the truth. Sound familiar?
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.