The Wager disaster : mayem, mutiny and murder in the South Seas / Rear Admiral C.H. Layman, CB, DSO, LVO.
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 ca...
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