{"id":5668,"date":"2024-08-27T03:42:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T03:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2024-08-27T03:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T03:42:51","slug":"the-wager-by-david-grann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/the-wager-by-david-grann\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>The Wager<\/B> by David Grann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/61714633-the-wager\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1659407155l\/61714633._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/61714633-the-wager\">The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1431785.David_Grann\">David Grann<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/6794342902\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the best book I&#8217;ve read all year by far. It&#8217;s a must-read. It&#8217;s a total page-turner almost from the beginning although it takes a few chapters to introduce the key figures and their backstory. This is the true story of a harrowing misadventure of a task force of English ships sent around Cape Horn in 1740 to prey on a Spanish Galleon thought to be laden with treasure. The group becomes separated in the notorious storms in that region. One ship in particular, <em>The Wager<\/em>, is shipwrecked on the Patagonian shore. Thereafter is a tale &#8211; many tales &#8211; of death and disease and heroism and bravery and cowardice and resourcefulness and deviousness. It&#8217;s a cross between <a title=\"Lord of the Flies by William Golding\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7624.Lord_of_the_Flies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lord of the Flies<\/a> and <a title=\"Horatio Hornblower 1 - 11. (German Edition) by C.S. Forester\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/584330.Horatio_Hornblower_1___11___German_Edition_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Horatio Hornblower 1 &#8211; 11.<\/a> and <a title=\"Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2932.Robinson_Crusoe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robinson Crusoe<\/a>. Some survive. Some don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t want to spoil it beyond that but the subtitle tells you there&#8217;s a lot more: &#8220;A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book is thoroughly researched with many direct quotes from log books and other original sources, but the book reads like a well-paced novel, not a white paper. There are many truths here and they are not consistent. You can judge the officers and seamen and the entire British navy for yourself after finishing it &#8212; or maybe you&#8217;ll decide you shouldn&#8217;t judge anybody.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the best book I&#8217;ve read all year by far. It&#8217;s a must-read. It&#8217;s a total page-turner almost from the beginning although it takes a few chapters to introduce the key figures and their backstory. 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