The tale of the ill-fated HMS Wager gripped the public's
imagination, feeding its taste for dramatic accounts of survival
against the odds. Part of George Anson's squadron that had been
sent to harass Spanish ships in the Pacific, she was wrecked after
rounding Cape Horn in 1741. The majority of the survivors, led by
ship's gunner John Bulkeley, mutinied against their irascible and
unpredictable captain and chose to make their own way home in what
would become one of the most hazardous journeys ever recorded.
Their journey took them over 2,000 miles in an open boat through
ferocious seas, enduring starvation and extreme privation. Two
years after the disaster, the thirty remaining men arrived back in
England. Bulkeley and ship's carpenter John Cummins published this
account in 1743. Also reissued in this series is the 1768 account
of John Byron, who had been midshipman aboard the Wager.
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