294: The Ill-Fated Voyage of HMS Wager w/ David Grann - A True Crime History Podcast
Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
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The Castaways' Journey to Wager Island
The book took five years to write, and you spent about two years in the archives. You had that doubt that kind of gnaws at you: can I really understand what the castaways had gone through unless I went to the island myself? So he found a Chilean captain who had a boat who could take him there from Chile. And it was so rough and tempestuous at first that we couldn't even leave because the Coast Guard had closed the port. It's very chillingly beautiful; it remains a place of wild desolation, barren and desolate.
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