David Grann

The Waterstones Podcast vor 3 Jahren

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Stories of seafaring, shipwreck, mutiny and murder have long held
a fascination, particularly for dwellers of this island nation
and in his latest investigative piece of narrative non-fiction,
David Grann has a tale that grips from first page to last. The
Wager was a vessel shipwrecked in the 1740s, its crew presumed
lost, until a group of survivors washed up on the coast of
Brazil. Their story of survival would have been incredible enough
except for a second group of survivors to appear in Chile with
stories of mutiny, murder and even cannibalism. What follows is
not so much a question of who is telling the truth, but of who
gets to tell the story that will become the truth. A court
martial of individuals but also the idea of Empire itself. We sat
down to talk about the pursuit of truth, human survival and the
power of stories to endure.