
THE WAGER: David Grann Tells a Tale of Shipwreck and Mutiny
The Next Big Idea
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The Struggles of a Shipman
The crew was decimated as they approached Cape Horn, one of the worst seas in the world. "Scurvy strikes them right as they're approaching the most treacherous part of their journey," he says. Herman Melville compared it to a descent into hell and Dante's infernal; that's really what it was like.
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