The loss of the Wager : the narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron
"When Commodore Anson set out for the Pacific in 1740, to attack the Spanish ships on the Chilean coast, he took eight ships with him. The Wager was effectively a transport ship, carrying stores and a force of marines; as the squadron rounded Cape Horn in fearsome weather, she was unable to keep up with the rest of them, and with her gear wrecked by the storm, was driven ashore on the Patagonian coast."
Print Book, English, 2004
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2004
Early works
xxvi, 240 pages ; 22 cm.
9781843830962, 1843830965
56356013
A voyage to the South Seas in the years 1740-1 / John Bulkeley
Narrative of the Honourable John Byron / John Byron
Originally published: The Wreck of the Wager. London : Folio Society, 1983
"A voyage to the South-Seas in the years 1740-1, by John Bulkeley and John Cummins, was first published in 1743, and The narrative of the Honourable John Byron in 1768. In this edition Bulkeley's account is reprinted from the first edition and Byron's from an edition published in 1785."