Los Náufragos del Wager / The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - Grann, David
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On January 28, 1742, a rickety boat with patched wood and sails washed ashore in Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive and with an extraordinary story to tell. They were the survivors of the Wager, His Majesty the King's British ship, which departed England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war against Spain. While pursuing a Spanish galleon laden with treasure, known as 'the prize of all the ocean, ' the Wager was wrecked on a deserted island off the coast of Patagonia. After months marooned and facing starvation, they built the flimsy craft and sailed for over…mehr

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On January 28, 1742, a rickety boat with patched wood and sails washed ashore in Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive and with an extraordinary story to tell. They were the survivors of the Wager, His Majesty the King's British ship, which departed England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war against Spain. While pursuing a Spanish galleon laden with treasure, known as 'the prize of all the ocean, ' the Wager was wrecked on a deserted island off the coast of Patagonia. After months marooned and facing starvation, they built the flimsy craft and sailed for over one hundred days, crossing 2,500 miles of stormy seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then... six months later, another boat, even more decrepit, washed ashore in Chile. This boat held only three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who reached Brazil were not heroes... but mutineers. The first group responded by striking back in their own way against the tyrannical and homicidal captain and his henchmen. It became clear that, while stranded on the island, the crew had descended into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominance of this inhospitable land. As accusations of treason and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court-martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were lives: whoever the court found guilty could end up hanging"--
Autorenporträt
David Grann (Nueva York, 1967) es escritor y periodista en The New Yorker. Sus historias han aparecido en distintas antologías, incluyendo The Best American Crime Writing de 2004, 2005 y 2009; y The Best American Sports Writing de 2003 y 2006. Finalista en 2005 del Michael Kelly Award por su 'valiente búsqueda y expresión de la verdad', Grann también ha colaborado con The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic y The New Republic, entre otras publicaciones. Su primera novela, Z, la ciudad perdida (Literatura Random House, 2017) fue número uno de ventas según The New York Times, ha sido traducida a más de 25 idiomas y ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla. Literatura Random House también ha publicado El viejo y la pistola, en el que se ha basado la película protagonizada por Robert Redford. Su último libro, Los asesinos de la luna, ha sido best seller por The New York Times y considerado por la prensa estadounidense como uno de los mejores libros de 2017. Ha sido galardonado a su vez con Edgar Allan Poe Award al Best Fact Crime, y ha sido finalista del National Book Award. Martin Scorsese y Leonardo Di Caprio están preparando su versión cinematográfica.