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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is the fifth nonfiction book by American journalist David Grann. [1] The book focuses on the Wager Mutiny. It was published on April 18, 2023 by Doubleday. [2] [3] [4] The book became a bestseller, topping The New York Times best-seller list in the nonfiction category for its first week of ...
David Elliot Grann (born March 10, 1967) is an American journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author. His first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon , was published by Doubleday in February 2009.
David Grann, author of "Killers of the Flower Moon," arrives in Savannah with his latest page-turner, "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder."
In The New York Times, Sam Roberts called the book "riveting." [4] Writing in Entertainment Weekly, critic Keith Staskiewicz gave the collection a grade of A: "This collection of David Grann's nonfiction, much of it from The New Yorker, is by turns horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish...
David Grann: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. Doubleday, New York, NY 2023. ISBN 978-0385534260; John Bulkeley & John Cummins: A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1: Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship the Wager on a Desolate Island. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015.
A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.
chelsea green publishing white river junction, vermont the end of america letter of warning to a young patriot naomi wolf eoa2 final pages 7/27/07 12:05 pm page i
The Wager 's crew did reject the authority of their officers, once the ship was wrecked, in what became known as the Wager mutiny in 1741. [1] The lesson of the wreck of the Wager played a role in revising British naval discipline, so that officers did retain formal authority over crew members even when their ships were lost or captured.