![]() 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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