The Wager Disaster

Author : C.H. Layman
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910065528
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wager Disaster written by C.H. Layman and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the astounding story of HMS Wager, driven ashore in foul weather onto the inhospitable coast of Patagonian Chile in 1741. Shipwreck was followed by murder, starvation, mutiny, and the fearful ordeal of 36 survivors out of about 140 men. Some were enslaved, some defected; many drowned. The captain shot one of his officers. There was an epic open-boat voyage of 2500 nautical miles through the world's most hostile seas, probably the greatest castaway voyage in the annals of the sea, and the least known. Midshipman Byron, the grandfather of the poet, was prominent among the survivors. The story is placed in its historical context, using eye-witness accounts where possible, with some previously unpublished material. It finishes with the finding of the wreck by a British expedition in 2006. Foreword written by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.

Author : John Byron
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535466271
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager written by John Byron and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager is an account of the wreck and mutiny of the HMS Wager. The Wager was a British ship which wrecked in 1741 off the coast of Chile. A mutiny ensued and only a handful of the original 300 crew made it back to England.

Author : David Grann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471183696
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wager written by David Grann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of David Grann's The Wager written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of David Grann's The Wager in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. David Cheap, first lieutenant on the Centurion, sought redemption from his troubled past by joining Captain George Anson's squadron on a mission to disrupt Spanish commerce in the Pacific. Despite delays and a shortage of skilled crew due to Britain's lack of conscription, the squadron set sail with a reluctant and poorly equipped crew. John Byron, a young midshipman aboard the Wager, documented the harsh realities of life at sea, including the rigid social hierarchy and the crew's diverse backgrounds...

Author : John Byron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436635257
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager written by John Byron and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Chris Moss
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908493356
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patagonia written by Chris Moss and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small tribes of hunter-gatherers and roaming nomads when Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520. A fateful moment for the natives, this was the start of an era of adventure and exploration. Soon Sir Francis Drake and John Byron, and sailors from Europe and America, would be exploring Patagonia’s bays and inlets, mapping fjords and channels, whaling, sifting the streams for gold in the endless search for Eldorado. As the land was opened up in the nineteenth century, a crazed Frenchman declared himself King. A group of Welsh families sailed from Liverpool to Northern Patagonia to found a New Jerusalem in the desert. Further down the same river, Butch and Sundance took time out from bank robbing to run a small ranch near the Patagonian Andes. All these, and later travel writers, have left sketches and records, memoirs and diaries evoking Patagonia’s grip on the imagination. From the empty plains to the crashing seas, from the giant dinosaur fossils to glacial sculptures, the landscape has inspired generations of travellers and artists.

Author : Byron Lord
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 375233875X
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager written by Byron Lord and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager by Byron Lord

Author : S. W. C. Pack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wager Mutiny written by S. W. C. Pack and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandrine Revet
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030415821
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disasterland written by Sandrine Revet and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the making of the international world of ‘natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a collective narrative, a shared language, and standardized practices. The book analyses the two main framings that these professionals use to situate themselves with regards to a disaster: preparedness and resilience, arguing that the making of the world of ‘natural’ disasters reveals how heterogeneous, conflicting, and sometimes competing elements are put together.

Author : Philip Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604260
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Voyage written by Philip Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of voyage narratives, including Cook and Bligh, set in the context of British imperialism.