THE WAGER: David Grann Tells a Tale of Shipwreck and Mutiny

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the acclaimed author of "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon." In his new book, the #1 New York Times bestseller "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder," he tells the story of an 18th-century British warship that crashed on a godforsaken island off the coast of Patagonia. Stranded and starving, the men descended into murderous anarchy. Years later, when a handful of the survivors returned to England, their heroes' welcome was quickly swamped by questions about what really happened on the island. Host: Caleb Bissinger Guest: David Grann

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:06.2	I'm Rufus Griskem, and this is the next big idea.
0:11.8	Today, something different, something special.
0:30.0	If you've glanced at the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list recently,
0:33.5	you may have noticed that the same book has been number one for a few weeks now.
0:38.6	The Wager, a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder by David Graham.
0:43.6	Here's our producer, Caleb Bissinger, to take you back to the 1700s
0:49.0	when this story takes place.
0:55.0	It's 4.30 in the morning, May 14, 1741.
1:00.0	And after months at sea, the Wager, an ungainly British warship,
1:04.5	is sailing off the coast of Patagonia, caught in a storm that has so black in the skies
1:10.8	all the men on board can see is the darkness of a certain doom.
1:17.0	What was that? A wave?
1:19.4	No, a sunken rock, and another, and another.
1:24.8	The Wager's rudder snaps clean off.
1:28.4	A tutun anchor crashes through her hull.
1:31.4	She can no longer be steered, can barely stay afloat as she stumbles blindly
1:36.6	through boiling seas.
1:38.6	This, the men are certain, is the end of their voyage.
1:43.6	Some fall to their knees in prayer.
1:46.4	Others lose their minds with fear.
1:49.4	One tries to throw himself overboard.
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