The Wager by David Grann
Tuesday November 24 2026 3:00PM
Highland
Event Description
Join the discussion of The Wager by David Grann, our Fact or Fiction Book Club selection for November. Pick up a copy at the Highland Branch.
Summary: "January 28, 1742: A vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men: 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 2500 miles of storm-wracked seas. 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 sailors who landed in Brazil were mutineers. Grann shows that, as countercharges and accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial-- and the stakes were life-and-death."
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3:00PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday November 24 2026
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Meeting Room A
Highland
2841 Jewett St
Highland IN 46322
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