Frances Wilson

Triumph and disaster in the War of Jenkins’ Ear

David Grann returns to the greatest sea story ever told: of Captain Anson’s piratical feat, and ‘the mutiny that never was’ aboard the Wager

‘The Capture of the Spanish Galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga’, by John Cleverly the Younger. [Bridgeman Images] 
issue 13 May 2023
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  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    David Grann

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 352, £20

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