The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - David Grann Audiobook
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling 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.
On 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 court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death–for whomever the court found guilty could hang.
The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann’s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.
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This post has 16 comments with rating of 5/5
April 22nd, 2023
Brilliant! Many thanks!
April 22nd, 2023
Thanks heaps for sharing
April 23rd, 2023
Thanks so much for fulfilling the request!
April 23rd, 2023
Awesome! Cheers mate!
April 25th, 2023
Thank you!
April 25th, 2023
Superb. Thanks
May 7th, 2023
Thank you.
May 22nd, 2023
The narrator is a knave, a rogue a scoundrel and very possibly insane. In the second half he goes completely nuts and is unbearable with his overly dramatic phrasing of even the most commonplace sentences. Obviously non of you nimrods have actually listened to this crime against humanity.
June 20th, 2023
Thanks!
June 24th, 2023
that’s interesting pbcaddy/ the book is #5 on amazon after being out for more than 2 months and here is the description of the narrator:
Dion Graham is an American actor and narrator. As an actor, he has worked both on and off-Broadway, as well as in TV series and film. As of August 2022, he has narrated 249 audiobooks. He has earned a place on AudioFile magazine’s list of Golden Voice Narrators, as well as Audible’s Narrator Hall of Fame.
July 5th, 2023
Thank you!
July 16th, 2023
Sounds fascinating. Thanks!
August 29th, 2023
Who is here after knowing that Scorsese and Leo’s next movie is based on this?
December 21st, 2023
Thanks for sharing!
February 29th, 2024
Is it me or does it sound like he is reading this in a tin can?
April 3rd, 2024
To the comments made about this narrator…
Just because a narrator has pedigree and awards doesn’t mean they’re actually a good narrator. For example, people adore the narrator Dion Graham (We Cast a Shadow, Crook Manifesto, etc.), but his peculiar and misguided tendency to constantly emphasize words requiring no emphasis has ruined a number of audiobooks for me.
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