The Loss of the Wager: The Narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron
Jack Byron and Bulkeley's account of the Wager wreck. This has actually sparked...
The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines. When Commodore Anson set out for the Pacific in 1740, to attack the Spanish ships on the Chilean coast, he took eight ships with him. The Wager was effectively a transport ship, carrying stores and a force of marines; as the squadron rounded Cape Horn in fearsome weather, she was unable to keep up with the rest of them, and with her gear wrecked by the storm, was driven ashore on the Patagonian coast. The tale of mutiny, hardship and tenacity that ensued was told by two of the survivors, John Bulkeley, leader of...
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Jack Byron and Bulkeley's account of the Wager wreck. This has actually sparked a new obsession (hence the longer pauses in the book reading from hereon). I got into all the other accounts as well, and have started to do annotations to Patrick O'Brian's "The Unknown Shore". Ahh, obsessions, eh? This useful paperback combines two contemporary accounts of events following the wreck of the British warship Wager on a remote island off the coast of Chile in 1741. The first 122 pages are a reprinting of "A Voyage to the South Seas in the Years 1740-1" by John Bulkeley and John Cummings (1743). The second part reprints 109 pages...
