Grann is the author of bestsellers The Lost City of Z and Killers of the Flower Moon, which has been made into a movie directed by Martin Scorcese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, to be released this fall. A staff writer at the New Yorker since 2003, Grann had stumbled on the story of the Wager’s sinking and the amazing tale of survival amid a descent into starvation and savagery. The Wager had been part of a military expedition against Spanish forces, heading to the Pacific coast of Chile via the treacherous Cape Horn at the tip of South America. Grann was sailing to the small, barren island where the survivors of the shipwreck of the British man-of-war Wager landed in May 1741, with barely the clothes on their backs amid cold raging storms. For his latest, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, published this week, he ended up hunkered down on the deck of a 50-foot boat so he wouldn’t get injured as the waves off the coast of southern Patagonia tossed his ship around. David Grann, F92, likes to go to extremes-at least once he leaves the archives and libraries where he does so much research for his books.
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