![]() ![]() “ Mutiny on the Bounty,” after all, was a true story. Forester, Arthur Ransome, and Patrick O’Brian. However, before the crew could accomplish their. In 1740, a ship called the Wager departed from England to pursue a Spanish galleon filled with treasure. These are the factors that have ensured that tales of men and ships - they were nearly always men - have such a storied literary history, the real-life grist for such authors as Defoe and Melville, C.S. In the bestselling author’s latest narrative nonfiction masterpiece, he revives an 18th-century tale of shipwreck, mutiny, murder and fake news. Depravity and violence and hubris and cowardice, yes, but also unimaginable ingenuity and brotherhood and glorious, steely, human will. Grann focuses his attention on three of the vessel’s crew members: Captain David Cheap, who sailed as the first lieutenant of another ship. In few other situations were large groups of human beings placed in such dire conditions against such powerful forces, in isolation, often for years at a time, and nowhere else does the human animal become so revealed. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is bestselling author David Grann’s vivid account of that ill-fated expedition, revealing humanity at its best and worst, from heroism to cannibalism. But those men were also privy to an exotic outside world experienced by few others at a time when there were no photos, no phones or even telegraphs, and most people on the planet never traveled farther than a few miles from home. ![]() ![]() Ships, especially warships, were microcosms of society at large, filled with young boys and teenagers and old men, the uneducated and the highborn, all speaking a particular language. ![]()
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