A review by paperback_whiplash
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

adventurous informative medium-paced

5.0

The novel seeped into my subconscious. The night I started reading it I had a vivid dream about being stuck in a storm like the Wager crew.  
I've never read a non-fiction novel pre-1900s and I've realised how much I'm missing. I've highlighted so much in this book I want to look into more. 
A bit that will stick with me the longest will be the distressing depictions of the crew suffering from scurvy. I was eating fruit at the time (coincidence) and I thought to myself "wow I really need to eat more fruit just in case". 

"so misrable was the scene, thats words cannot express the misery that some of the men died in." And those who were alive were nearly indistinuisable from the dead The disease had consumed not only the bonds that glued together the seaman's bodies but their vessels' companies.

The passage then goes on to talk about how so many men died so quickly, they couldn't keep up and the rats were eating the bodies. So yeah, a bit bleak. 

Also, after you read The Wager, look up Wager Isle on Google Maps then check out the reviews for a bit of a chuckle.