The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
☆ Included in Barack Obama’s Summer 2023 Reading List
Recommendations from our site
“If a grisly story of adventure on the high seas is what you’re after, David Grann, writer of wonderful tales of narrative nonfiction, had a new book out in May: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder about an 18th-century British man-of-war which was shipwrecked off Patagonia.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Early Summer 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
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The Cruel Sea
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