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• But even before the mission got underway, its prospects of success appeared dubious.
• A sizeable proportion of the roughly 2,000 sailors and non-seamen under Anson’s command lacked suitable experience.
• Worse still was the fact that so many of them took up their posts already in a parlous state of health.
• After several weeks plying those waters in severe weather, the Wager lost contact with Anson’s flagship and the rest of the fleet.

The work of seagoing

• (In a recent interview, Grann cited David McCullough’s history of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge as a model of engaging technical prose.)
• Throughout, Grann’s book registers profound respect for the work of seagoing – work Anson’s crews carried out amidst a wartime atmosphere of “constant stress.” As the Wager wrecked, its men embarked upon a new – and yet harsher – enterprise: to remain united and alive in a situation their knowledge and experience seemed helpless to comprehend.
• It was wintertime on a small, mountainous island – itself called Wager, nowadays – at close to 48 degrees southern latitude.
• Between Portsmouth and Patagonia, more than one third of the ship’s complement of 250 men had been buried at sea.

Legal burlesque

• Meanwhile, the British Admiralty came to require its officers to maintain detailed records of nautical incidents.
• Among the strangest and most effective passages in this book are episodes of legal burlesque, wherein little bands of shipwrecked sailors, clad in rags and emaciated from hunger, draw up quasi-formal documents purporting to attest to some version of their experience.
• Understanding this wreck impinges directly upon our sense of the British Empire and the civilisation it claimed to convey.
• At Wager Island, Grann observes, some “supposed apostles of the Enlightenment” were reduced to “a Hobbesian state of depravity”.
• He sees them negotiating the lands and waters they inhabit with a degree of know-how the British strain even to imagine.

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