The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann - 2023

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2023 Doubleday, New York. 2023. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/ First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; small scuff to top or rear board. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($30.00); scant bumping to head and tail. Burgundy paper over boards with burgundy overlay on the spine; silver lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 329 pp 8vo. This is a seafaring true story of a British naval operation in the mid 1740s that wound up costing the navy the majority of it ships and crews that accompanied the HMS Centurion on the chase of a Spanish Galleon around Cape Horn. The Wager was a small man-o-war that never fired a shot on its voyage of accompaniment of the Centurion around the Cape and eventually was lost in a storm and shipwrecked off the coast of Patagonia.Thense followed a breakdown in command, a murder, a mutiny, several different attempts to sail back to England, some of which succeeded only to be met with a court martial. An exciting tale of the seafaring and the old British navy in the days of wooden ships and sails. A clean very presentable copy.