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(1395 -1450)
foregrounds a cluster of recurring themes: and the costs of empire, survival under extreme conditions, contested authority and mutiny, and the malleability of truth as survivors and institutions shape...
’s reconstructs the 1741 wreck and aftermath using a trove of archival material and competing survivor accounts, and it is broadly faithful to the insofar as that record exists and can be interpreted ...
David Grann’s The Wager reconstructs the 1741 wreck of HMS Wager and the ensuing conflict among survivors, using archival documents to interrogate how competing narratives become history; the book is ...