The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder / David Grann. - London : Simon & Schuster, 2023. - 329, [3] strony : ilustracje, fotografie ; 24 cm.

Autor

Grann, David (1967- ). Autor

Forma i typ

Książki Proza Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura amerykańska

Temat

Statki Marynarka wojenna Wraki Ofiary katastrof i wypadków Bunt Śledztwo i dochodzenie Wielka Brytania Patagonia (kraina historyczna) Brazylia Hiszpania

Gatunek

Publicystyka Reportaż

Dziedzina i ujęcie

Historia Prawo i wymiar sprawiedliwości

A grand tale of human behaviour at the extremes, with some incredible twists of the narrative that hold the reader spellbound. On 28 January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship the "Wager", which had left England two years earlier on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain and had been wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. Six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who had landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court-martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death – for whomever the court found guilty could hang. This time Grann unearths the deeper meaning of the events, showing it was not only the ship's captain and crew who were on trial – it was the very idea of empire.

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