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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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Diane S ☔
May 01, 2023 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Roughly two hundred and eighty days after The Wager shipwrecked, Grann pens the tale of.what happened and why. Using a narrative voice he used vivid descriptions about life at sea, a hard and dangerous life,often made more so by lack of men due to illness. The rough waters around Cape Horn created a life and death situation.Well researched Grann used a journal kept.by one of the men, as well as 18th century ship.logs, textbooks and lastly the court proceedings, themselves.

A drama of survival and
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