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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
101 reviews
elskabee's review against another edition
The author also does a good job of outlining the historical context but doesn't get overly bogged down in details. I find these kinds of books to often be extremely dry, but this was highly engaging and almost cinematic at times (I'm not surprised seeing as this is the author of Lost City of Z which got turned into a movie).
I really appreciated the inclusion of discussions of colonialism and racism towards the end of the book. While brief, it gave extra context and acknowledges historical reality rather than ignoring or erasing it.
Dion Graham did an excellent job with the narration too!
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Abandonment and Animal death
Minor: Cannibalism
kcbas1's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Xenophobia, Animal death, and War
Minor: Suicide, Racism, Cannibalism, and Slavery
daughterofatom's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Murder, Colonisation, and Violence
Moderate: Torture, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Xenophobia, War, Gun violence, Genocide, and Animal death
Minor: Medical content, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Classism, Excrement, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Trafficking, and Racism
mtferal's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death and Violence
Minor: War
pumpkincore's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Cannibalism, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Body horror, and Murder
ecourtis's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Murder, Death, Suicide, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Racism
Minor: Classism and Colonisation
erica_reads_everything's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Cannibalism, Murder, Death, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
pferdina's review against another edition
3.5
Minor: Slavery, Cannibalism, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Violence, Medical content, Blood, and Murder
angela_iseli's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Murder, Abandonment, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, War, and Cannibalism
kshertz's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Gun violence, Animal death, Gore, Murder, Torture, Blood, Violence, Cannibalism, Death, and Injury/Injury detail