Book review: A harrowing shipwreck and mutiny in DavidGrann's 'The Wager.' Grann will discuss the book May 4 at Yellow Box Theatre in Naperville
"The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann The Wager, a British war ship, crashed onto rocks amid stormy seas off the coast of Patagonia in 1741. Sailors on a secret wartime mission had already dealt with typhus, lice, blinding squalls, frostbite, worm-eaten biscuits, scurvy and the death of comrades since they set sail months earlier.Stranded on a cold, deserted island, shipwreck survivors scraped seaweed off rocks to boil and eat. Some ate the dead.
Bulkeley, a sailor to his bones, was highly competent and increasingly doubtful of Cheap's judgment as their mission to the Pacific progressed. After the shipwreck, he wrote in his journal that if the captain had only conferred with his officers they"might probably have escaped our present unhappy condition."
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