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A voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1 : containing a faithful narrative of the loss of His Majesty's ship the Wager on a desolate island
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ISBN: 1316224740 1108083412 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The tale of the ill-fated HMS Wager gripped the public's imagination, feeding its taste for dramatic accounts of survival against the odds. Part of George Anson's squadron that had been sent to harass Spanish ships in the Pacific, she was wrecked after rounding Cape Horn in 1741. The majority of the survivors, led by ship's gunner John Bulkeley, mutinied against their irascible and unpredictable captain and chose to make their own way home in what would become one of the most hazardous journeys ever recorded. Their journey took them over 2,000 miles in an open boat through ferocious seas, enduring starvation and extreme privation. Two years after the disaster, the thirty remaining men arrived back in England. Bulkeley and ship's carpenter John Cummins published this account in 1743. Also reissued in this series is the 1768 account of John Byron, who had been midshipman aboard the Wager.

The loss of the Wager : the narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron
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ISBN: 1281949965 9786611949969 1846152518 1843830965 Year: 2004 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press,

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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. 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 attackthe 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 those who repudiated the captain's authority, and John Byron, then a midshipman, who remained with the captain. Both eventually reached home by different routes, and their dramatic narratives caught the public imagination. Byronwas the grandfather of the poet, Lord Byron, who much admired the book and based the shipwreck scenes in Don Juan on 'my grand-dad's Narrative'. This voyage was the basis for Patrick O'Brian's historical work The Unknown Shore, written before he embarked on the Jack Aubrey novels.


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The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, Commodore in a Late Expedition round the World : Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and his Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, from the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England, 1746
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ISBN: 1107323886 1108065368 Year: 1768 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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John Byron (1723-86) died a vice-admiral, having earned the nickname 'Foulweather Jack' after much experience on rough seas. In 1741 he was a midshipman aboard HMS Wager in a squadron sent to attack Spanish ships off Chile. Shipwrecked in a storm after rounding Cape Horn, the majority of the survivors turned on their captain and attempted to make their own way home. Byron was among the group who stayed with the commanding officer. In 1768, now a commodore, he published this account of the five harrowing years it took to get back to England, by which time he was one of only four survivors. Although no doubt written to give his side of the story, it appealed to a public eager for tales of dramatic endurance against the odds. Aboard the Beagle on Darwin's voyage, the book also informed the shipwreck in Don Juan by the author's grandson.

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Voyages around the world. --- Circumnavigation --- Journeys --- Tours around the world --- Travel books --- Travels --- Trips around the world --- Voyages around the world --- International travel --- Voyages and travels --- Wager (Ship) --- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) --- Chile --- Chiloé (Chile) --- Chiloé, Chile (Province) --- An t-Sile --- An tSile --- Chih-li --- Chili --- Chili Mastor --- Chili Respublikasʹ --- Ch'ille --- Çhillee --- Chilmudin Orn --- Chilska --- Chilská republika --- Chiri --- Chyli --- Ciile --- Cîl --- Cile --- Çili Respublikası --- Ĉilia Respubliko --- Ĉilio --- Dēmokratia tēs Chilēs --- Gweriniaeth Tsile --- iChile --- ITshile --- Kili --- Lepupalika ʻo Chile --- Lýðveldið Kili --- Lýðveldið Síle --- Ndenndaandi Ciile --- Pobblaght ny Shillee --- Poblachd na Sile --- Repubblica del Cile --- Republic of Chile --- República de Chile --- República de Xile --- Republik Chile --- Republik Chili --- Republika Chilska --- Republika Čile --- Republiḳah shel Tsilah --- Republikken Chile --- République du Chili --- Repúbrica de Chili --- Rėspublika Chyli --- Shillee --- Síle --- Sily --- t-Sile --- Tilì --- Tšiili --- Tšiili Vabariik --- Tsilah --- Tsile --- Ts'ileh --- Txile --- Txileko Errepublika --- Xile --- Yn Çhillee --- Χιλή --- Δημοκρατία της Χιλής --- Рэспубліка Чылі --- Чылі --- Чилмудин Орн --- Чили --- Чили Республикась --- Чили Мастор --- צ'ילה --- רפובליקה של צ'ילה --- チリ --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs

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