Book Club: The Wager by David Grann

Join us the first Thursday of the month for Book Club. This event is open to the public.

This month’s book is: The Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

A mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth. In 1740, the British ship the Wager set out on a secret mission during a war with Spain. The ship wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. When two groups of survivors were rescued years later, they told different stories of the events. Were the survivors heroes? Or were they mutineers, power-crazed murderers, and worse? In the end, it was not only the Wager’s captain and crew who were put on trial, but the very idea of empire itself.