BOOK: What I Learned from Reading The Wager  About Power and Story

For Father’s Day, my son Axel gave me three books. I had just finished The Magic Maker when, on July 4, I picked up David Grann’s The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. I could not put it down. For a week, I sailed with these men. I learned the language of the Age of Sail.…