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The Wager: Shipwreck, Mutiny and the Art of Writing History
How do you make a history book read like a novel—and where should you draw the line?
This week on History Book Buffs, Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse discuss David Grann’s The Wager, an extraordinary story of shipwreck, survival and mutiny. Both loved the book, but what makes its storytelling so powerful?
When HMS Wager is wrecked off the coast of South America, naval discipline gives way to competing loyalties and a desperate struggle to survive. Grann turns the survivors’ conflicting accounts into gripping narrative history, complete with vivid characters, unbearable tension and…
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