Adult Book Discussion: The Wager by David Grann

The St. Marys Community Public Library is holding in-person book discussions on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:00 p.m. Join us as we share our love of books, and discover a possible selection of new books to try for yourself. It's a great time to come back to the library! St. Marys Community Public Library is featuring The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by author David Grann for a discussion on Thursday, September 10th, 2026. The discussion will be in the library meeting room from 6:00 p.m. To 7:00 p.m. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... Six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not hero