The Loss of the Wager: The Narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron by John Byron, Alan Gurney, John Bulkeley

The Loss of the Wager: The Narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron

John Byron, Alan Gurney, John Bulkeley

266 pages first pub 1832 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative medium-paced
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The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines. When Commodore Anson set out for the Pacific in 1740, to attack the Spanish ships on the...

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