David Grann on the Wreck of the H.M.S. W...

What is it about a bookstore? You walk in planning to browse for a few minutes, and somehow an hour later you’re still wandering the stacks with an armful of books you can’t seem to put down. For this week’s episode, our guest host, MJ Franklin, and the producer Sarah Diamond tak ... Show More

Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent more than a decade interviewing dozens of experts while mastering the voluminous ... Show More

What are the best thrillers published since 2000? That was the question that the team at The New York Times’s Book Review posed to hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians, editors, critics and ... Show More

<p>You can’t beat a story about an eighteenth-century mutiny and survival and then conflicting accounts. Author David Grann has written about the epic, harrowing saga of a ship and its crew in a book called The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. </p><p><br></p><p>Supp ... Show More

<p>In 1740, the Royal Navy ship <em>The Wager</em> set sail for the Pacific to take part in the War of Jenkins' Ear. The unfortunate ship was separated from the fleet and, after pulverising storms and outbreaks of scurvy, ended up sinking near a small island off the coast of Chil ... Show More

<p><em>The Murder Sheet</em> recently interviewed author David Grann about his latest work,<em> The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder</em>. The book delves into a story of crime, violence, and desperation on the high seas. Grann is an acclaimed non-fiction writer who ... Show More

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 ... Show More

This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A maritime disaster that prompted the surviving Naval sailors’ descent into madness. To survive, the men resorted to murder, mutiny, and cannibalism before facing a court martial for their alleged crimes.David Grann joins host Ana Garcia ... Show More

A men traveling on a sailing vessel from Charleston S.C.to New York becomes intrigued by a fellow traveler's actions regarding a large oblong box he has brought onboard. When the ship runs into trouble during a hurricane, the box becomes an issue. Follow our new True Stories inte ... Show More

A man reuniting with his friends in New York City and recently back from another one of his world adventures shares a story of an occurrence in Arizona which nearly cost him his life. Follow our new True Stories interview show 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay (links below) A ... Show More