Review: In “The Wager,” David Grann weaves a relentless, horror-filled story of disaster on the ocean
The nightmare began in 1740 as HMS Wager set out from England among a flotilla of seven British warships carrying 2,000 men on a voyage across the Atlantic, around Cape Horn and into the Pacific, there to intercept and take as prize a Spanish galleon, a floating treasure chest filled with South American silver, gold and precious gems. At best the voyage would take several years.Before the squadron even got across the Atlantic Ocean, though, typhus hit.
Hobbesian nightmare ensued, the 145 remaining men starving, freezing, unhoused and barely clothed. Thefts. Fights. Hoarding. Captain David Cheap, long dreaming of command and promoted at last to his position during the voyage, descended into rigid authoritarianism and violence. The gunner, John Bulkeley, a natural leader, rose as Cheap tumbled.
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