Patrick O'Brian · 1959 · survival

Jack Byron and his friend Toby Barrow sail in the store-ship Wager, part of Anson's squadron, only to be wrecked on a desolate island off Patagonia; as discipline collapses among the castaways, they endure cold, starvation and mutiny before a small party fights its way north to the Spanish settlements and, at last, home.

1. 1
   Portsmouth

   Where the Wager sails as part of Anson's squadron, carrying the stores for the whole expedition.

2. 2
   Madeira

   The first landfall on the long voyage south.

3. 3
   St Catherine's Island

   The Brazilian refit before the squadron turns for the Horn.

4. 4
   Port St Julian

   The bleak Patagonian harbour, last shelter before the storms of the far south.

5. 5
   Cape Horn

   The savage passage that scatters the squadron and drives the crippled Wager onto a lee shore.

6. 6
   Wager Island

   The desolate island of the wreck, where the starving castaways fall into faction and mutiny.

7. 7
   Chiloe

   The Spanish-held island the survivors reach after a terrible boat journey up the coast, where they are taken prisoner.

8. 8
   Valparaiso

   The Chilean port to which the ragged survivors are carried before the long passage home.

9. 9
   Portsmouth

   Home at last, round the Horn again, after years given up for lost.