They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain.

This is Wager Island, named for the ship that washed up 300 years ago. A spit of inhospitable land, hugging the Pacific coast. Scenic from a distance but you wouldn't want to spend the night.

Review. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. By David Grann Doubleday: 352 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose ...

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“The Wager: A Take of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” by David Grann (Doubleday) The Wager, a British war ship, crashed onto rocks amid stormy seas off the coast of Patagonia in 1741. Sailors ...

Books The Story of a Shipwreck the British Government Didn’t Want You to Know To write The Wager, David Grann sifted through 280-year-old documents to sort fact from fake news.

There were multiple moments while reading David Grann’s new book, “The Wager,” about an 18th-century shipwreck, when it occurred to me that the kind of nonfiction narratives The New Yorker ...

An excerpt of David Grann’s forthcoming book, “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” about some eighteenth-century misadventures at sea.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.