THE WAGER

By David Grann, published by Simon & Schuster

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This story of shipwreck, survival and savagery, culminates in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. In 1742, a ramshackle vessel washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, who were survivors of the Wager, a British...

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