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Oct 2023
42m 13s

Wicked Words - David Grann: The Wager

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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. Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com      If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use som ... Show More
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