A review by estellegodard
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

adventurous dark informative slow-paced

3.0

once again, a very well researched and informative book by david grann. the author does a good job of including anecdotes and dialogues that bring the story to life, rather than being a simple historical book. that being said, it’s still very dense. the first third of the book deals entirely with the crew before the wreck and it is pretty tedious and confusing. there’s a lot of technicalities and names to keep track of and it’s not that interesting. getting to the ship wreck and especially the escape attempts felt like an adventure story & was much more enjoyable. I also particularly liked the bits of chapters that focused on the patagonian and indigenous tribes. 
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