Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Grann, David (1967-....). Auteur du texte  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The wager [Texte imprimé] : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder / David Grann ; [maps designed by Jeffrey L. Ward]

Publication : London : Simon & Schuster, 2023

Description matérielle : xii, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps, colour portraits ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Maps on lining pages. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-313) and indexOn 28 January 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, which had left England two years earlier on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain and had been wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months, 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. Six months, 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 had landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. 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 she court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behaviour at the extremes told by one of our greatest non-fiction writers. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound. Most powerfully, he unearths the deeper meaning of the events, showing it was not only the Wager's captain and crew who were on trial - it was the very idea of empire

Sujet(s) : Wager (navire)  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet Naufrages -- Grande-Bretagne  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet Naufrages -- Patagonie  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet Mutineries -- Grande-Bretagne -- XVIIIe siècle  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781471183683. - ISBN 1471183688. - ISBN 9781471183676 (rel.). - ISBN 147118367X. - ISBN 9781471183690 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47337058k

Notice n° :  FRBNF47337058 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)