What audience would you recommend The Wager to? Is there another book or author you feel has a similar theme or style?

What audience would you recommend The Wager to? Is there another book or author you feel has a similar theme or style?

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I think The Wager would appeal to anyone who likes history. I would recommend to those who like fiction or non-fiction. An interest in sailing would also be a bonus but not necessary.

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The two that come to mind right off:

Astoria by Peter Stark
(Astoria by Peter Stark: Summary and Reviews)
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
(In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides: Summary and Reviews)

Anyone who likes adventure, history or survival stories would enjoy this book. Similar books Simone might enjoy would be David McCullough’s Johnstown flood and Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

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Anyone. I read because I wanted to get something different and enjoyed Killer Moon book. Totally not disappointed. The descriptive blurbs do not adequatey describe the multiple sailings within the total adventure. The story raises questions–for example–why carry all ammunition on the weakest and smallest ship?–as well as questions brought about by the various landing parties.

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I would recommend The Wager to those who love, adventure, nonfiction, and history. Also, I would recommend the book to fiction readers who would like to dip their toes in the nonfiction pool. This true story is almost hard to believe at times and it is exciting.

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Mutiny on the Bounty and The Caine Mutiny are both good books about rebellion aboard a ship, although neither involved a wreck.

For books about life aboard a British Navy ship I highly recommend C.S. Forester’s Hornblower series and Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin books. They’re both set a little later - early 19th century - but similar, if fictionalized.

Anyone very detail oriented and/or anyone with an interest in nautical history. I found the level of detail too intricate for my interest. Personally, I would have been more interested in details on the thoughts/feelings of the people rather than descriptions of the boat. I understand this is difficult when writing an accurate story and all the characters have passed.

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I would recommend “The Wager” to lovers of history and/or adventure. A similar read might be “The Perfect Storm.”

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I would say that a Dan Simmons’s The Terror and definitely Herman Melville’s MobyDick and William Grills’s Shakelton’s Journey

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I would recommend this book to any lover so history whether it be nautical history or just a lover of history. I have enjoyed reading this book as well as his other book, Killers of the Flower Moon. An author who I am also fond of reading his books is Eric Larson and I think that most readers who enjoyed this book would also enjoy his books as well.

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I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read adventures and history books.
I also think people who think they would not enjoy non fiction would like this book as the writing is very engaging.

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I recommend to anyone that spent time in boating or on the sea.

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Anyone who likes history. I knew the author was a great writer, and knew how to make history real and accessible. It did not disappoint.

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I would recommend this book to readers of David Grann’s other books: Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, for example. He manages to find and reconstruct little known historical events with a focus on intriguing, powerful characters. He combines compelling evidence and research with a narrative style which brings these people and their stories into a bright light.

I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about early sailing adventures and injustices that occurred. I wasn’t sure I would like the book but it “grabbed my attention” right from the beginning. I kept reading to see “what would happen next”.

I also like Larson’s books and have read several of them. I think Grann’s storytelling style is similar.

This is definitely a book for someone who likes historical material on ships and seafaring in that time period. Reads more like a history book than a story.

I think people who love history, the sea or just plain adventure would love this book. It’s non-fiction, but is a very good read.

Our book club just read The Ministry of Time. One of the main characters was Graham Gore an officer on one of the ships trying to find the Northwest Passage. This disaster occurred 100 years later in British Naval history. These two books highlighted why Great Britain ruled the world at one time as they had such mastery over the watery world.