The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is the fifth nonfiction book by American journalist David Grann. The book describes the Wager Mutiny. It was published on April 18, 2023, by Doubleday
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HMS Wager (1739)
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HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for the East India Company before the Royal Navy purch
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
…nonfiction category for its first week of publication. It stayed on their list of best-selling hardcover non-fiction books for 66 weeks. The book concerns HMS Wager, a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship, and the mutiny that took place after the ship's wreckage in 1741. In their starred review, Kirkus Reviews…
"The Wreck of the Wager", the frontispiece from John Byron's account