![]() The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. ![]() They were greeted as heroes.īut then…six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. ![]() 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. 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. 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. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. ![]() On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. ![]()
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