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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - David Grann (Livre de poche)

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Plongez dans le récit captivant de David Grann, auteur à succès de « Killers of the Flower Moon », avec cet ouvrage historique haletant. Ce livre retrace l'histoire vraie et tragique du naufrage du Wager, un navire britannique échoué en 1740, où survie, mutinerie et trahison se mêlent dans une épopée maritime inoubliable. Cette édition en format po...

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GENERIC
Titre principal
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Editeur
Vintage
Type de produit
Paperback
Présentation du livre
Paperback
Release date
2/25/2025 12:00:00 AM
Langue d'origine
English
ISBN
307742490
Dimensions
5.15 x 0.87 x 7.95 inches
Nombre de pages de livre
432 pages
Langue - Librairie
English
Résumé
A “TOUR DE FORCE OF NARRATIVE NONFICTION” (WSJ) WITH OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NYT BEST SELLER LIST 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. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, TIME, Smithsonian, NPR, Vulture“Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history—and imperialism—with gusto.” —TimeOn January 28, 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, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, 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.But then ... 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 landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a
Auteur(s)
David Grann
Date de parution
2/25/2025 12:00:00 AM