Renée De Coster ’s Reviews > The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder > Status Update

"Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don't - the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out."

“An official in Brazil remarked how strange it was that ‘people who had undergone so many hardships and difficulties could not agree lovingly together.’”

Lord Byron, what are you doing here?

“We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we have done - or haven’t done.”