كتاب
The Wager disaster: mayhem, mutiny and murder in the South Seas
| العنوان: | The Wager disaster: mayhem, mutiny and murder in the South Seas Mayhem, mutiny and murder in the South Seas |
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| المؤلفون: | Layman, C. H., author. |
| المساهمون: | Philip, Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1921- writer of foreword. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | 336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Wager (Ship), Shipwrecks -- Oceania., Shipwrecks -- Chile -- Chiloé., Shipwrecks -- History -- 18th century., Shipwreck survival -- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Patagonia (Argentina and Chile), Chiloé (Chile) |
| الوصف: | In 1741, the British warship HMS Wager crashed on the shore of an uninhabited island off the coast of Chilean Patagonia. One hundred and forty men reached land. Only thirty-six made it back home. The "Wager" Disaster is the extraordinary story of human endurance and the perseverance of those soldiers in the face of unthinkable adversity. Britain and Spain were at war, and the Wager was part of a small British squadron sent to extend the battle to their Spanish possessions in the South Seas. Unfortunately, there were no accurate charts of the west coast of South America, and much of the navigation was determined by guesswork. Vicious hurricane-force winds wrecked the Wager, separating it from the squadron. Starvation, exhaustion, hypothermia, and drowning quickly claimed most of the soldiers who survived the wreck. The rest rose up against the unpopular captain and set off in an open boat with no chart, resulting in one of the greatest survival voyages as the castaways made their way 2,500 nautical miles back to Britain.-- |
| Original Identifier: | ocn890360582 ocn908393684 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-910065-50-1 1-910065-50-1 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-320) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014372137.2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9781910065501 1910065501 |
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