THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION The beauty ofThe Wagerunfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books Ive ever read GuardianThe greatest sea story ever told SpectatorI cannot think of anyone who would not love this book . . . It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully written Richard OsmanA cracking yarn Granns taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expression here ObserverFrom the internationalbestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martialthat reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patchedtogether 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 Majestys ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain.While chasing a Spanish treasurefilled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of stormwracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a...

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