Shipwrecked

There’s an old sailors’ saying about the ocean at the southernmost
part of the world — “below 40 degrees latitude, there is no law;
below 50 degrees, there is no God.” David Grann brings us the story
of what happened when five British warships set off on a secret
mission to steal a ship filled with treasure. They’d have to sail
around the very bottom of South America — at 56 degrees south.
David Grann’s book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and
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