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Los N?ufragos del Wager / The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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Del autor bestseller #1 del New York Times, creador de Los asesinos de la luna de las flores y La ciudad perdida de Z, llega una historia fascinante sobre naufragios, supervivencia y salvajismo, la cual desemboca en una corte marcial donde se revela una verdad impactante.
El 28 de enero de 1742, una embarcaci?n desvencijada con la madera y las velas parchadas llega a la costa de Brasil. En el interior hab?a treinta hombres escu?lidos, a duras penas vivos y con una extraordinaria historia que contar. Eran los sobrevivientes del Wager, un barco brit?nico de su majestad el rey, que parti? de Inglaterra en 1740 en una misi?n secreta durante una guerra imperial contra Espa?a. Al perseguir a un gale?n espa?ol cargado de tesoros, conocido como "el premio de todo el oc?ano", el Wager naufrag? en una isla desierta frente a la costa de la Patagonia. Despu?s de pasar meses abandonados y enfrentar la inanici?n, construyeron la endeble embarcaci?n y navegaron durante m?s de cien d?as, atravesando 2 500 millas de mares tempestuosos. Los recibieron como h?roes. Pero entonces... seis meses despu?s, otra barca, todav?a m?s decr?pita, lleg? a la costa de Chile. Este bote solo conten?a tres n?ufragos, y ellos contaban una historia muy distinta. Los treinta marinos que llegaron a Brasil no eran h?roes... sino amotinados. El primer grupo respondi? contraatacando a su manera al capit?n tir?nico y homicida, y a sus secuaces. Qued? claro que, mientras estuvieron varados en la isla, la tripulaci?n hab?a ca?do en la anarqu?a, con facciones beligerantes peleando por el dominio de esa tierra inh?spita. Mientras volaban acusaciones de traici?n y asesinato, el almirantazgo convoc? a una corte marcial para determinar qui?n dec?a la verdad. Lo que estaba en juego era la vida: a quien la corte encontrara culpable pod?a acabar en la horca. Los n?ufragos del Wager es una grandiosa historia del comportamiento humano llevado al extremo, contada por uno de nuestros mejores escritores de no ficci?n. La recreaci?n de Grann del mundo oculto en el interior de un barco de guerra brit?nico rivaliza con la obra de Patrick O'Brien; su retrato de los desesperados apuros de los n?ufragos hace frente a narrativas de supervivencia como el Endurance, y su recuento de la corte marcial muestra la destreza de un thriller de Scott Turow. Como siempre sucede con el trabajo de Grann, los incre?bles giros en la narrativa mantienen bajo hechizo al lector. Y lo m?s poderoso de todo, desentierra el significado m?s profundo de los eventos, mostrando que no solo estaban en juicio el capit?n del Wager y su tripulaci?n... sino la propia idea de imperio. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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.
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9788439744573
Language: Spanish
About the Author
David Grann (Nueva York, 1967) es escritor y periodista en The New Yorker. Sus historias han aparecido en distintas antolog?as, incluyendo The Best American Crime Writing de 2004, 2005 y 2009; y The Best American Sports Writing de 2003 y 2006. Finalista en 2005 del Michael Kelly Award por su ?valiente b?squeda y expresi?n de la verdad?, Grann tambi?n ha colaborado con The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic y The New Republic, entre otras publicaciones. Su primera novela, Z, la ciudad perdida (Literatura Random House, 2017) fue n?mero uno de ventas seg?n The New York Times, ha sido traducida a m?s de 25 idiomas y ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla. Literatura Random House tambi?n ha publicado El viejo y la pistola, en el que se ha basado la pel?cula protagonizada por Robert Redford. Su ?ltimo libro, Los asesinos de la luna, ha sido best seller por The New York Times y considerado por la prensa estadounidense como uno de los mejores libros de 2017. Ha sido galardonado a su vez con Edgar Allan Poe Award al Best Fact Crime, y ha sido finalista del National Book Award. Martin Scorsese y Leonardo Di Caprio est?n preparando su versi?n cinematogr?fica.
El 28 de enero de 1742, una embarcaci?n desvencijada con la madera y las velas parchadas llega a la costa de Brasil. En el interior hab?a treinta hombres escu?lidos, a duras penas vivos y con una extraordinaria historia que contar. Eran los sobrevivientes del Wager, un barco brit?nico de su majestad el rey, que parti? de Inglaterra en 1740 en una misi?n secreta durante una guerra imperial contra Espa?a. Al perseguir a un gale?n espa?ol cargado de tesoros, conocido como "el premio de todo el oc?ano", el Wager naufrag? en una isla desierta frente a la costa de la Patagonia. Despu?s de pasar meses abandonados y enfrentar la inanici?n, construyeron la endeble embarcaci?n y navegaron durante m?s de cien d?as, atravesando 2 500 millas de mares tempestuosos. Los recibieron como h?roes. Pero entonces... seis meses despu?s, otra barca, todav?a m?s decr?pita, lleg? a la costa de Chile. Este bote solo conten?a tres n?ufragos, y ellos contaban una historia muy distinta. Los treinta marinos que llegaron a Brasil no eran h?roes... sino amotinados. El primer grupo respondi? contraatacando a su manera al capit?n tir?nico y homicida, y a sus secuaces. Qued? claro que, mientras estuvieron varados en la isla, la tripulaci?n hab?a ca?do en la anarqu?a, con facciones beligerantes peleando por el dominio de esa tierra inh?spita. Mientras volaban acusaciones de traici?n y asesinato, el almirantazgo convoc? a una corte marcial para determinar qui?n dec?a la verdad. Lo que estaba en juego era la vida: a quien la corte encontrara culpable pod?a acabar en la horca. Los n?ufragos del Wager es una grandiosa historia del comportamiento humano llevado al extremo, contada por uno de nuestros mejores escritores de no ficci?n. La recreaci?n de Grann del mundo oculto en el interior de un barco de guerra brit?nico rivaliza con la obra de Patrick O'Brien; su retrato de los desesperados apuros de los n?ufragos hace frente a narrativas de supervivencia como el Endurance, y su recuento de la corte marcial muestra la destreza de un thriller de Scott Turow. Como siempre sucede con el trabajo de Grann, los incre?bles giros en la narrativa mantienen bajo hechizo al lector. Y lo m?s poderoso de todo, desentierra el significado m?s profundo de los eventos, mostrando que no solo estaban en juicio el capit?n del Wager y su tripulaci?n... sino la propia idea de imperio. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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.
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9788439744573
Language: Spanish
About the Author
David Grann (Nueva York, 1967) es escritor y periodista en The New Yorker. Sus historias han aparecido en distintas antolog?as, incluyendo The Best American Crime Writing de 2004, 2005 y 2009; y The Best American Sports Writing de 2003 y 2006. Finalista en 2005 del Michael Kelly Award por su ?valiente b?squeda y expresi?n de la verdad?, Grann tambi?n ha colaborado con The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic y The New Republic, entre otras publicaciones. Su primera novela, Z, la ciudad perdida (Literatura Random House, 2017) fue n?mero uno de ventas seg?n The New York Times, ha sido traducida a m?s de 25 idiomas y ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla. Literatura Random House tambi?n ha publicado El viejo y la pistola, en el que se ha basado la pel?cula protagonizada por Robert Redford. Su ?ltimo libro, Los asesinos de la luna, ha sido best seller por The New York Times y considerado por la prensa estadounidense como uno de los mejores libros de 2017. Ha sido galardonado a su vez con Edgar Allan Poe Award al Best Fact Crime, y ha sido finalista del National Book Award. Martin Scorsese y Leonardo Di Caprio est?n preparando su versi?n cinematogr?fica.
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