In "The Wager," Grann pieces together the disparate accounts of two sets of castaways from the HMS Wager, a British man-of-war sent off from 18th century England in pursuit of a Spanish galleon filled with treasure. When the ship wrecks off the coast of Patagonia, some crew land in Chile while the others land in Brazil. And they each have a different tale to tell about what happened off Cape Horn.
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Planning ahead? The group will discuss "The Fraud" by Zadie Smith as its next fiction read at noon on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, via Zoom.