Tag: The Wager

  • The Wager: When Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

    The Wager: When Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

    David Grann’s book, The Wager, explores the idea that truth can be stranger than fiction. The book centers around an event that occurred during Commodore George Anson’s 18th-century circumnavigation of the world. A British ship, the Wager, foundered near an island off the Chilean coast after a brutal voyage around Cape Horn. Some of the…