Jacob Shymanski

For people who don't know about it, it follows an expedition from the UK that was meant to go to the eastern Pacific Ocean to defend against Spanish ships or something along those lines.

But

One of the ships gets shipwrecked on an island off the southern coast of Argentina.

And the book follows and reports on the journey of these survivors and how they stayed on the island for months and eventually built a replacement ship, craft, raft, whatever you want to call it.

And they sailed all the way up to Brazil and found their way back home after months and an absolutely grueling journey.

And you learn about the people involved, their families back home, who they were, their jobs, the way sailing worked at the time, the way news traveled, and how it was an absolute sensation back in the UK.

And then there was this whole plot of whose story is real because it involved mutiny and murder.

It felt so dramatic, but again, is sourced in real history by consulting a bunch of really detailed ship logs from people who are on these ships and all these sailors who would write diaries and journal entries over the months that they were on the crafts and on the island.

Incredible book, The Wager by David Graham.

He wants to tell you the story, not the facts.

The story.

Yeah.

Red, I want to thank you so much for your time.

We'll talk again sometime soon.

We're going to make sure to have lots of recommendations for everyone.

And we'll make sure to include...

the recommendations that we had today in the podcast description cheers red thanks very much jacob that's all the time for this edition of audiobook cafe the show airs on weekends and mondays at 1 p.m eastern on ami audio but we're also available as a podcast you can email us your feedback at audiobook cafe at ami.ca and you can join us on instagram at ami audiobook cafe our instagram handle is at ami audiobook cafe i'm your host jacob shymansky happy listening

Today I want to highlight a Canadian author who's done really well for herself since her debut novel, Aisha at Last, that came out in 2018.

I'm talking about Uzma Jalaluddin.

Her 2021 book, Hanakhan Carries On, is being adapted into a feature film with Mindy Kaling being involved.