Name: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (en Inglés)
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Author: David Grann
ISBN: 9780385534260

portada The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

David Grann

Editorial

Doubleday Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780385534260

Categorías

Reino unido
Época georgiana - 1714-1837
Asesinatos y homicidas en serie reales
Historia de europa
Historia marítima

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (en Inglés)

David Grann (Autor) · Doubleday Books · Tapa Dura

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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.

David Grann

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David Grann (Nueva York, 1967) es escritor y periodista en The New Yorker. Sus historias han aparecido en distintas antologías, incluyendo The Best American Crime Writing de 2004, 2005 y 2009; y The Best American Sports Writing de 2003 y 2006. Finalista en 2005 del Michael Kelly Award por su «valiente búsqueda y expresión de la verdad», Grann también ha colaborado con The New York Times Magazine , The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic y The New Republic, entre otras publicaciones. Su primera novela, Z, la ciudad perdida (Literatura Random House, 2017) fue número uno de ventas según The New York Times, ha sido traducida a más de 25 idiomas y ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla. Literatura Random House también ha publicado El viejo y la pistola, en el que se ha basado la película protagonizada por Robert Redford. Su último libro, Los asesinos de la luna, ha sido best seller por The New York Times y considerado por la prensa estadounidense como uno de los mejores libros de 2017. Ha sido galardonado a su vez con Edgar Allan Poe Award al Best Fact Crime, y ha sido finalista del National Book Award. Martin Scorsese y Leonardo Di Caprio están preparando su versión cinematográfica.

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