Project Gutenberg 2013-11-16 Public domain in the USA. 146 Byron, John 1723 1786 19012963 Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager With an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia from the year 1740 till their arrival in England 1746 Produced by Charlene Taylor, Norbert Müller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager" by John Byron is a historical account written in the early 19th century. This work recounts the harrowing experiences of Byron and his fellow sailors following the wreck of the British ship, the Wager, in the treacherous waters of Patagonia in 1740. Focused on themes of survival, adversity, and human resilience, the narrative portrays the dire conditions faced by the crew as they battled starvation, despair, and the unpredictable forces of nature. At the start of the narrative, Byron sets the stage for the ill-fated expedition led by Commodore Anson, detailing the unfortunate circumstances that led to the Wager being separated from its squadron and ultimately wrecked. As the opening unfolds, readers witness the crew's desperate struggle as they navigate the calamitous aftermath of the wreck, their subsequent encounters with the elements, and the psychological toll of isolation amid a dramatic natural environment. The vivid descriptions of their hardships, from deadly storms to the gruesome necessity of cannibalism, illustrate the extreme challenges they faced while evoking a profound sense of sympathy for the sailors’ plights. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44193/44193-h/images/titlepage.jpg en Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) Wager (Ship) Chiloé (Chile) F3051 Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Travel & Geography 290046 290055 2024-09-18T13:34:25.940770 2023-09-19T09:16:02.799884 text/html text/html 289567 2013-11-16T06:08:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 125105 2013-11-16T06:08:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 142883 2024-09-18T13:34:30.096761 application/epub+zip 145037 2024-09-18T13:34:26.885770 application/epub+zip 145036 2024-09-18T13:34:26.423808 application/epub+zip 221177 2024-09-18T13:34:32.772750 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 198589 2024-09-18T13:34:29.643765 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 198833 2022-09-20T07:24:49.783135 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 264240 264009 2024-09-18T13:34:25.342797 2023-09-19T09:16:02.510889 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 264007 2013-11-16T06:08:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 97332 2013-11-16T06:08:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 264014 2013-11-16T06:08:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 97303 2013-11-16T06:08:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20582 2024-09-18T13:34:32.916733 application/rdf+xml 9285 2024-09-18T13:34:26.505804 image/jpeg 1921 2024-09-18T13:34:26.464790 image/jpeg 127237 2024-09-18T13:34:25.972795 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog