The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder - Image 1

£9.95

Simon & Schuster The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

Name: The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Price: 9.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

9781471183706

Maritime History & Piracy

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£10 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 56 days · 56 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 56 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £9.95 (55 days, 98.2%)

Price range: £9.95 - £10

Price levels: 2 different prices over 56 days

Description

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read' Guardian ‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator 'I cannot think of anyone who would not love this book . . . It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully written' Richard Osman ‘A cracking yarn… Grann’s taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expression here’ Observer From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th 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, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. 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.

Key Features

New Store Stock

Product Specifications

Brand: Simon & Schuster
Model: 9781471183706
Format: paperback
ASIN: 147118370X
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Maritime History & Piracy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 January 2024
Listed Since: 09 August 2022

Barcode

No barcode data available

Simon & Schuster The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Rome: The Complete Collection [Blu-ray] [2005] [2007] & Black Sails: The Complete Collection (Seasons 1-4) [Blu-ray]

Musketeers - The Complete Collection [DVD] & Black Sails: The Complete Collection (Seasons 1-4) [DVD]

Justified - The Complete Series [DVD] [2015] & Black Sails: The Complete Collection (Seasons 1-4) [DVD]

The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653

Letters of Seamen in the Wars with France, 1793-1815

Springer Piracy at Sea: 2 (WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs, 2)

Small Navies: Strategy and Policy for Small Navies in War and Peace (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series)

PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN 1-5 BD

Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Indian Ocean Studies Series)

The British Navy in the Caribbean

Annual Report on the Development of the Indian Ocean Region (2019): Assessment of Indian Ocean International Environment (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path)

The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: A Tourist in Africa: Volume 25

British Naval Captains of the Seven Years' War: The View from the Quarterdeck

Routes nouvelles, côtes inconnues: 16 explorations françaises autour du monde, 1714-1854

William Collins - Battle of the Arctic: Maritime Epic of WWII

Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen, 1580-1603: 214 (Contributions in Military Studies)

Pirate Costume Swords and Skulls Tee - Kids and Adult Shirt

Hawke, Nelson and British Naval Leadership, 1747-1805

The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649

Physician to the Fleet: The Life and Times of Thomas Trotter, 1760-1832

Théodore Poussin - Tome 14 - Aro Satoe

Sustainability in the Maritime Domain: Towards Ocean Governance and Beyond (Strategies for Sustainability)

Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War: Reflections on the Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757

Treatise on Partisan Warfare: 116 (Contributions in Military Studies)