Most of the men died on their journey to Brazil. John Bulkley knew many people in England might see what they did as mutiny. So he decides to get his story out there first and to release his account.
There’s an old sailors’ saying about the ocean at the southernmost part of the world — “below 40 degrees latitude, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.”
David Grann brings us the story of what happened when five British warships set off on a secret mission to steal a ship filled with treasure. They’d have to sail around the very bottom of South America — at 56 degrees south.