5/10/2023 0 Comments The Wager by David Grann![]() Happily, we have in print this epic true story as told by a master. Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who recently finished filming a previous Grann bestseller (“ Killers of the Flower Moon”), have already signed on to adapt this one. So writes author David Grann in “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.” At this point, about a third of the way through the book, you the reader may find yourself saying, “Whoa! this could make one heck of a movie - like “The Perfect Storm” only more spectacular.” If so, you wouldn’t be the first. ![]() She collided with a wave and “the mizzen, a vital mast, toppled over like an axed tree, crashing down with its rigging and sails into the sea.” All he could discern behind him was a looming mountain of water in front of him nothing but another terrifying mountain.” The ship pitched, heaved, groaned, and splintered. The gunner on board, John Bulkeley, felt the vessel “hurtling on an avalanche of water, cascading into a chasm devoid of light. In March 1741, in a ferocious storm at the foot of South America, a creaky wooden ship called the Wager sailed into the Drake Passage - the most notorious channel in the world. ![]()
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