The Wager
(Audiobook on CD)

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[Place of publication not identified?]: Penguin Random House, 2023., Old Saybrook, Connecticut : www.micromarketing.org
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Unabridged.
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13 sound discs (15 hours) : digital, CD audio 4 3/4 in.
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Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
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[Place of publication not identified?]: Penguin Random House, 2023., Old Saybrook, Connecticut : www.micromarketing.org
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Audiobook on CD
Edition
Unabridged.
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English

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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. With the twists and turns of a thriller Grann unearths 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 2500 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. 9780307747488; Penguin Random House; 13 Disc(s); 15 Hours; True Crime / Murder / Mass Murder; 04/18/23

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Grann, D. (2023). The Wager (Unabridged.). Penguin Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Grann, David. 2023. The Wager. Penguin Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Grann, David. The Wager Penguin Random House, 2023.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Grann, David. The Wager Unabridged., Penguin Random House, 2023.

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