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Author : S. W. C. Pack
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Wager Mutiny written by S. W. C. Pack and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.H. Layman
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 191006551X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Wager Disaster written by C.H. Layman and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 captain shot one of his officers. There was an epic open-boat voyage of 2500 nautical miles through the world's most hostile seas, probably the greatest castaway voyage in the annals of the sea, and the least known. Midshipman Byron, the grandfather of the poet, was prominent among the survivors. The story is placed in its historical context, using eye-witness accounts where possible, with some previously unpublished material. It finishes with the finding of the wreck by a British expedition in 2006. Foreword written by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
Author : Fernanda Peñaloza
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039109173
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Patagonia written by Fernanda Peñaloza and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is a selection of the papers presented during the international conference Patagonia: Myths and Realities organised through the Centre of Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester and held in September 2005 at the Manchester Museum"--Introd.
Author : David Grann
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385534272
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Wager written by David Grann and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, TIME, Smithsonian, NPR, Vulture, Kirkus Reviews “Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history—and imperialism—with gusto.” —Time "A tour de force of narrative nonfiction.” —The Wall Street Journal On January 28, 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 the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that 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. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann’s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.
Author : John Bulkeley
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830962
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Loss of the Wager written by John Bulkeley and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines. The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines. When Commodore Anson set out for the Pacific in 1740, to attackthe Spanish ships on the Chilean coast, he took eight ships with him. The Wager was effectively a transport ship, carrying stores and a force of marines; as the squadron rounded Cape Horn in fearsome weather, she was unable to keep up with the rest of them, and with her gear wrecked by the storm, was driven ashore on the Patagonian coast. The tale of mutiny, hardship and tenacity that ensued was told by two of the survivors, John Bulkeley, leader of those who repudiated the captain's authority, and John Byron, then a midshipman, who remained with the captain. Both eventually reached home by different routes, and their dramatic narratives caught the public imagination. Byronwas the grandfather of the poet, Lord Byron, who much admired the book and based the shipwreck scenes in Don Juan on 'my grand-dad's Narrative'. This voyage was the basis for Patrick O'Brian's historical work The Unknown Shore, written before he embarked on the Jack Aubrey novels.
Author : Philip Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604260
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Voyage written by Philip Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of voyage narratives, including Cook and Bligh, set in the context of British imperialism.
Author : Steven Pfaff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108152023
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Rebellion written by Steven Pfaff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at sea as microcosms; Petri dishes in which larger themes of authority, conflict and order emerge. In this fascinating book, Pfaff and Hechter explore mutiny as a manifestation of collective action and contentious politics. The authors use narrative evidence and statistical analysis to trace the processes by which governance failed, social order decayed, and seamen mobilized. Their findings highlight the complexities of governance, showing that it was not mere deprivation, but how seamen interpreted that deprivation, which stoked the grievances that motivated rebellion. Using the Age of Sail as a lens to examine topics still relevant today - what motivates people to rebel against deprivation and poor governance - The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail helps us understand the emergence of populism and rejection of the establishment.
Author : Barry Stone
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459620968
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book True Crime and Punishment: Mutinies written by Barry Stone and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutiny is an act of open revolt by those expected to serve without question, by those working in the most disciplined and demanding of conditions, in the crews of ships, both naval and privately owned. Mutiny on the High Seas examines the circumstances that have driven sailors (and officers) to reject or betray their code, to overthrow authority, to commit extreme and lethal acts of insubordination. Each episode discusses the people who provoked the mutiny (including brutal commanders; poor living conditions; poor pay; untrained and unwilling men; the occasional psychopath), how the mutiny was quelled, the fate of the mutineers, and whether the mutiny achieved any broader institutional, political or social change. The stories range from the mutiny against circumnavigator Ferdinand Magellan in 1520, to the 1797 mutiny of the British Fleet, through to the 1975 Storozhevoy mutiny led by an officer of a Soviet antisubmarine frigate to protest the corruption of the Brezhnev regime.
Author : Samuel Butler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Hudibras written by Samuel Butler and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xenophon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Xenophon's Minor Works written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Woodman
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Mutiny written by Richard Woodman and published by Constable. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious uprising on the Bounty has been elevated to iconic status by Hollywood, yet Richard Woodman describes it here as a mere 'pup' among mutinies. Captain Bligh was neither tyrant nor sadist -- whereas Pigot of the Hermione was both. Woodman brings a seaman's perspective to this compelling history, which stretches from Magellan's handling of an uprising on his great voyage of discovery in 1519 to the 'sordid crimes' that mutinies had become four centuries later.
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Schiller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Works written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Author : Alexander von Humboldt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Views of Nature, Or, The Sublime Phenomena of Creation written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : August Neander
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lectures on the History of Christian Dogmas written by August Neander and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Companion to the Almanac, Or Yearbook of General Information for .... written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
