After two years of research, the author traveled to Wager Island. The island is located in the Gulf of Sorrows or as some prefer to call the Gulf of Pain. "There always comes a point where I'm kind of haunted by things I don't know," she says.
David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.
“I became very haunted by the stories that [nations] don't tell. Nations and empires preserve their powers not only by the stories they tell, but also by the stories they leave out. … Early in my career, if I came across the silences in a story, I might not have highlighted them, because I thought, Well, there's nothing to tell there. And now I try to let the silences speak.”
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