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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
Started reading August 22, 2025
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As Samuel Johnson once observed, “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”
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Ditat virtus: “Virtue enriches.”