The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. 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.

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. 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. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. About the original book On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil.

“ Mutiny on the Bounty,” after all, was a true story.This is not a book by David Grann ,nor is it affiliated with them? It is an independent publication that summarizes Grann's book in detail. Forester, Arthur Ransome, and Patrick O’Brian. These are the factors that have ensured that tales of men and ships - they were nearly always men - have such a storied literary history, the real-life grist for such authors as Defoe and Melville, C.S. Depravity and violence and hubris and cowardice, yes, but also unimaginable ingenuity and brotherhood and glorious, steely, human will. In few other situations were large groups of human beings placed in such dire conditions against such powerful forces, in isolation, often for years at a time, and nowhere else does the human animal become so revealed. But those men were also privy to an exotic outside world experienced by few others at a time when there were no photos, no phones or even telegraphs, and most people on the planet never traveled farther than a few miles from home. Ships, especially warships, were microcosms of society at large, filled with young boys and teenagers and old men, the uneducated and the highborn, all speaking a particular language.

The wager by david grann