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The Wager : (Record no. 63508)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field on1337522872
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20230602113747.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 220804s2023 nyuabf e b 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2022028630
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780385534260
Qualifying information (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0385534264
Qualifying information (hardcover)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)on1337522872
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency OCLCF
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042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code s-ag---
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number G530.W25
Item number G73 2023
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 910.9164/1
Edition number 23/eng20221202
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Grann, David,
Relator term author.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Wager :
Remainder of title a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder /
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Doubleday,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2023.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates :
Other physical details illustrations (some color) ;
Dimensions 25 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Maps on lining pages.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth 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 2500 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 had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death-for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound. Most powerfully, he unearths the deeper meaning of the events, showing that it was not only the Wager's captain and crew who were on trial - it was the very idea of empire"--
610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Wager (Ship)
9 (RLIN) 138106
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Shipwrecks
Geographic subdivision Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Shipwreck victims
Geographic subdivision Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Shipwreck victims
Geographic subdivision Great Britain.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mutiny
Geographic subdivision Great Britain.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Grann, David.
Title Wager
Edition First edition.
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Doubleday, 2023
International Standard Book Number 9780385534277
Record control number (DLC) 2022028631
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type NF
Holdings
Lost status Collection code Current library Shelving location Full call number Barcode Number Koha item type
  Nonfiction Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 910.9 GRA 34480000595698 NF