The Wager : (Record no. 207)

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control field OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2022028630
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780385534260
Qualifying information (hardcover)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0385534264
Qualifying information (hardcover)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Sirsi) i9780385534260
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1374831742
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency JPL
Modifying agency JPL
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code s-ag---
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number G530.W25
Item number G73 2023
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 910.91641
Edition number 23/eng20221202
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Grann, David
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 462
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Wager :
Remainder of title a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder /
Statement of responsibility, etc. David Grann.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Doubleday,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2023]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 329 pages :
Other physical details illustrations (chiefly color) ;
Dimensions 25 cm
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
Content type code txt
Source rdacontent
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term unmediated
Media type code n
Source rdamedia
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term volume
Carrier type code nc
Source rdacarrier
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-313) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "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"--
Assigning source Provided by publisher.
610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Wager (Ship)
9 (RLIN) 463
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Shipwrecks
Geographic subdivision Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
9 (RLIN) 464
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Shipwreck victims
Geographic subdivision Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
9 (RLIN) 465
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Shipwreck victims
Geographic subdivision Great Britain.
9 (RLIN) 466
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Mutiny
Geographic subdivision Great Britain.
9 (RLIN) 467
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Military offenses
Geographic subdivision Great Britain.
Source of heading or term sears
9 (RLIN) 592
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Book - training
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Training Library Training Library 12/07/2024   910.91641 Gra 12/07/2024 12/07/2024 Book - training