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(0)David Grann
2) The Wager
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty?s ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain.�While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. �� Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And this was just the beginning,...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
James Gray writes and directs this action adventure adapted from the book by David Grann. Charlie Hunnam stars as British Colonel Percy Fawcett, an explorer who ventures deep into the Amazon jungle in search of a lost city thought to be the home of an ancient civilization. Accompanied by his close friend and fellow army officer Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson), Fawcett leaves behind his wife Nina (Sienna Miller) and embarks on an ambitious expedition...