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THE WAGER: David Grann Tells a Tale of Shipwreck and Mutiny

The Next Big Idea

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The Importance of Longitude

There's 40 miles of rope on each boat and there's 15,000 square feet of sail. There are stables for chickens and pigs and goats. And there's an operating theater for amputation at sea. So all told, spread across these ships, they're about 2,000 men.

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