Wager Tale Shipwreck Mutiny by Grann David, First Edition (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover Book & DJ in NEAR FINE excellent condition. First edition .No underlining.No highlighting.No creases Shelf 1003.

1st large print edition, 7th printing. A grand true story of human bevavior at the extremes of experience. Bright tight clean, large-print PB copy. 6 x 9-1/4, 492 pp, index, bibliography, notes, b/w illus, maps. Fine unmarked, no spine creases. Trade PB in glossy color-illus wraps.

Condition: New. 2024. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket after Peter Monamy (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 329pp, illustrated, map endpapers. On 28th January 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 chasing a Spanish treasure filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, 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. They were greeted as heroes. Then 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 thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes, they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. 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. Very scarce in this first impression hardback edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. About the book: Hardcover with jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Both book and jacket are in fine condition. Additional photos available upon request. Major motion picture coming soon.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and dated May 3, 2023 by the author during his appearance at the Westerville Public Library, OH. First printing with full number line. Bound in boards with dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unkowen (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition , 1st. Printing 2023. Hardcover with the dust jacket, 352 page book with illustrated end pages and black & white images . This is a truly signed copy by David Grann on the title page. Condition : As New. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SIGNED on the title page + photo. SIGNED in person by David Grann directly on the title page (Not signed on a bookplate or a blank tipped in page bound in by the publisher). NOT signed to anyone. Photos of David Grann at the signing event will be included with the signed book. 1st Edition / 1st printing. Hardcover. Book is NEW and UNREAD, opened only for signing. No marks, no inscription. Not a book club edition, not an ex-library. Dust jacket is new, not price-clipped, in a removable, protective clear cover. This is a beautiful autographed first edition for collectors. Makes a great gift. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Brand new, never read. SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING Hardcover: new. Dust jacket: new. Personally signed by the author to a specially bound Publisher's signature page. Not a bookplate. First edition, first printing, full number line present. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for years of worry free reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. From the #1 New York Times bestselling 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 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. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This a new 1st edition/1st printing signed by the author with no markings or inscriptions. The dust jacket is in a Mylar protective covering. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2023. Hardcover with the dust jacket, 352 page book. Mr. Grann's seventh book and a scarce in person signed and dated in the year of publication. Condition : As New ( opened to sign only ) Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.