The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder Tapa dura - 2023

New York: Doubleday. Clean, crisp hardcover in near fine condition; faint shelf wear. Near fine DJ with faint edge wear. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2023.

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2023 Doubleday, New York. 2023. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/ First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; small scuff to top or rear board. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($30.00); scant bumping to head and tail. Burgundy paper over boards with burgundy overlay on the spine; silver lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 329 pp 8vo. This is a seafaring true story of a British naval operation in the mid 1740s that wound up costing the navy the majority of it ships and crews that accompanied the HMS Centurion on the chase of a Spanish Galleon around Cape Horn. The Wager was a small man-o-war that never fired a shot on its voyage of accompaniment of the Centurion around the Cape and eventually was lost in a storm and shipwrecked off the coast of Patagonia.Thense followed a breakdown in command, a murder, a mutiny, several different attempts to sail back to England, some of which succeeded only to be met with a court… Leer más

Square spine, clean, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket clean with no rips. Not a remainder.

Doubleday, 2023 Hardcover. New.

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Doubleday, 2023-04-18. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Doubleday, 2023-04-18. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good.

This seamless slam-dunk of epic history-telling from the author of the bestselling Killers of the Flower Moon is an eighteenth-century puzzle of high seas intrigue, a fateful shipwreck, mutiny, and a real-life "Lord of the Flies" descent into mayhem, culminating in a gripping courtroom battle where opposing truths hang in the balance. Rousing, engrossing, and such a ride!
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… Leer más

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… Leer más