"I've hunted squid in a typhoon. Yeah, I was like, this is nothing," she says of her time on the ship. "The captain was very skilled. He instilled confidence." The castaways eventually made it to Patagonia but were forced out into open ocean for more than two weeks before they could get dry and warm again.
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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