赌局:海难、兵变和谋杀的故事 The Wager:A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 368 pages, 2x8pp colour

Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd

Imprint:Simon & Schuster Ltd

ISBN:9781471183706

Published:4 Jan 2024

Weight:318g

Dimensions:196 x 129 x 29 (mm)

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书籍简介

★《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书

★入围2023年贝利·吉福德非虚构类文学奖

★“《赌注》的美感如同一张巨大的风帆展开……这是我读过的十分精彩的非虚构类书籍之一”——《卫报》

★“有史以来伟大的海上故事”——《旁观者》

★“我想不出有谁会不喜欢这本书……这是一个非凡的真实故事，文笔优美”——《理查德·奥斯曼》

★“一个精彩绝伦的故事……格兰对绝望困境的品味在此得到了淋漓尽致的展现”——《观察家》

★出自国际畅销书《花月杀手》和《迷失Z城》的作者之手，讲述了一个引人入胜的故事，讲述了海难、兵变和谋杀，在军事法庭上揭开了一个令人震惊的真相。

1742年1月28日，一艘由木头和布料拼凑而成的破旧船只被冲上巴西海岸。船内有三十名奄奄一息的瘦弱男子，他们的故事非同寻常。他们是英国皇家海军“赌注号”（Wager）的幸存者。这艘船于1740年离开英国，执行与西班牙帝国战争期间的一项秘密任务。在追捕一艘满载宝藏的西班牙大帆船时，“赌注号”在巴塔哥尼亚海岸附近的一个荒岛上沉没。船员们被困数月，面临饥饿的威胁，于是建造了这艘简陋的小船，航行了一百多天，穿越了2500英里的风暴肆虐的海域。他们受到了英雄般的欢迎。

六个月后，另一艘更加破旧的小船登陆智利海岸。这艘船上只有三名遇难者，他们的故事截然不同。在巴西登陆的三十名水手并非英雄，而是叛变者。一批水手反驳道，他们指控船长及其党羽残暴残暴，专横跋扈。船员们被困岛上时，社会陷入混乱，各派势力为了争夺这片荒芜荒野的统治权而战。随着叛变和谋杀的指控四起，海军部召开军事法庭，以查明真相。这场审判关乎生死——法庭判定有罪者，将面临绞刑。

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*

'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read' Guardian 

‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator

'I cannot think of anyone who would not love this book . . . It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully written' Richard Osman

‘A cracking yarn… Grann’s taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expression here’ Observer

From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.

On 28th January 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 chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

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 counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. 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.

作者简介

大卫·格兰是国际畅销书排行榜冠军《花月杀手》、《迷失Z城》和《赌注》的作者。《花月杀手》曾入围美国橄榄球联盟赛非虚构类金匕首奖，并荣获埃德加·爱伦·坡奖。他也是《白色黑暗》和合集《魔鬼与福尔摩斯》的作者。格兰的小说创作荣获多项荣誉，包括乔治·波尔克奖。他与妻子和孩子现居纽约州威斯特彻斯特县。

David Grann is the author of the Number One international bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, THE LOST CITY OF Z and THE WAGER. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON was shortlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and won an Edgar Allan Poe Award. He is also the author of THE WHITE DARKNESS and the collection THE DEVIL AND SHERLOCK HOLMES. Grann's storytelling has garnered several honours including a George Polk Award. He lives with his wife and children in Westchester County, New York.