About the book: 2024 / MORE THAN 30,000 RATED REVIEWS ON AMAZON. Book of 2023 according to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal , The New Yorker, TIME The book is being made into a film by Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio. 1740, Britain. His Majesty's ship "Wager" sets off in pursuit of the Spanish galleon. On board - 250 healthy, strong men. 1742, Brazil. A homemade boat moored to the shore with the remnants of the Wager crew - 30 half-dead, exhausted sailors who survived scurvy, a shipwreck, were able to reach an uninhabited island, survived and returned back. Their homeland greeted them as heroes. Newspapers wrote about them, each received financial compensation. And four years later... three more members of the Wager team returned from hell - the captain and his two assistants. Their version of what happened shocked everyone... “The beauty of the Wager unfolds like a huge sail... Literary references turn Grann's book into something more than an adventure story. One of the best non-fiction books I've ever read." – Matthew Teague, The Guardian “At sea, things can always go wrong – and on this voyage, everything that can possibly happen happened. A truly Hobbesian nightmare. An unadorned, horror-filled, ruthless narrative that you can’t tear yourself away from.” — The Washington Post “The Wager has vibrant characters, varied settings, unexpected twists and an almost unimaginable amount of human suffering. Grann, author of the acclaimed Killers of the Flower Moon, tells this story with style, dramatically depicting the ordeal of the sailors on the doomed ship." - Associated Press "David Grann's latest book, Wager, is part Robinson Crusoe, part Lord of the Flies... Thrilling." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR (“The 10 Best Books of 2023”) “This remarkable tale of naval warfare, mutiny, and survival in the 18th-century Atlantic proves that a nonfiction book can be as gripping as any blockbuster.” – PeopleIn PDF A4 format the publishing design is preserved.