Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036
Cover for The Wager
10 Bedømmelse

4.5

Varighed
8T 28M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

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.

© 2023 Simon & Schuster Audio UK (Lydbog): 9781398522848

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 11. maj 2023

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Silver Bone: A Novel
    The Silver Bone: A Novel Andrey Kurkov
  2. The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War
    The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War Erik Larson
  3. The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
    The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel
  4. A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
    A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children Haley Cohen Gilliland
  5. Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
    Deep Water: The World in the Ocean James Bradley
  6. Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery
    Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery Honor Cargill-Martin
  7. Lonesome Dove: A Novel
    Lonesome Dove: A Novel Larry McMurtry
  8. The Slip
    The Slip Lucas Schaefer
  9. Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
    Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder Matthew Pearl
  10. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Imani Perry
  11. What Strange Paradise
    What Strange Paradise Omar El Akkad
  12. Playground: A Novel
    Playground: A Novel Richard Powers
  13. A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
    A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome Emma Southon
  14. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
    Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape Cal Flyn
  15. The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
    The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb Garrett M. Graff
  16. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World
    The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World Shelley Puhak
  17. Cahokia Jazz
    Cahokia Jazz Francis Spufford
  18. The Great Divide
    The Great Divide Cristina Henriquez
  19. In Ascension
    In Ascension Martin MacInnes
  20. Creation Lake: A Novel
    Creation Lake: A Novel Rachel Kushner
  21. The Sympathizer: A Novel
    The Sympathizer: A Novel Viet Thanh Nguyen
  22. The Director
    The Director Daniel Kehlmann
  23. This Plague of Souls
    This Plague of Souls Mike McCormack
  24. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
    She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth Helen Castor
  25. Great Black Hope: A Novel
    Great Black Hope: A Novel Rob Franklin
  26. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
    A Short History of the World in 50 Lies Natasha Tidd
  27. The Knowing
    The Knowing Tanya Talaga
  28. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
    Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale Miranda Seymour
  29. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
    Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands Kelly Lytle Hernández
  30. The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
    The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon David Grann
  31. Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
    Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History Philippa Gregory
  32. Homage to Barcelona
    Homage to Barcelona Colm Tóibín
  33. The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
    The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons Cat Jarman
  34. The King's General
    The King's General Daphne Du Maurier
  35. The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
    The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Lucy Hughes-Hallett
  36. The Accursed
    The Accursed Joyce Carol Oates
  37. Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
    Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global Laura Spinney
  38. The Winter Soldier
    The Winter Soldier Daniel Mason
  39. Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Adults: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Adults: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann
  40. The Future
    The Future Naomi Alderman
  41. The Mighty Red: A Novel
    The Mighty Red: A Novel Louise Erdrich
  42. Decline and Fall
    Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh
  43. Jamaica Inn
    Jamaica Inn Daphne Du Maurier
  44. Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain
    Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain Blessin Adams
  45. Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
    Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age Reid Mitenbuler

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis