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  1. Book of the Week: Episode 10 - The Court-Martial

    10/10 The day of reckoning arrives for the Wager's castaways.

  2. Book of the Week: Episode 9 - A Journal Is Published

    9/10 Competing accounts of the demise of the Wager put all the castaways lives in danger.

  3. Book of the Week: Episode 8 - Escaping Wager Island

    8/10 Mutiny has put the castaways into two factions, both hell bent on escape.

  4. Book of the Week: Episode 7 - Hope and Peril

    7/10 A glimmer of hope puts the emaciated castaways in a perilous position.

  5. Book of the Week: Episode 6 - Friends or Foes?

    6/10 Three slender canoes are spied by the castaways, are the friends or foes?

  6. Book of the Week: Episode 5 - A Fight for Survival

    5/10 Marooned in freezing temperatures, the Wager's sickly crew faces a fight for survival.

  7. Book of the Week: Episode 4 - Sailing into the Gulf of Pain

    4/10 Captain Cheap's seamanship is tested in the furious seas around Cape Horn.

  8. Book of the Week: Episode 3 - The Supreme Test of Seamanship

    3/10 The 18th-century warship prepares to sail into Cape Horn's treacherous seas.

  9. Book of the Week: Episode 2 - Daily Life On Board a Man-of-War

    2/10 The perils of daily life on board an 18th-century man-of-war become a reality.

  10. Book of the Week: Episode 1 - Preparations for a Secret Mission

    1/10 A story of shipwreck and survival - and a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.