![]() Really it was a clash of empires, as the British and Spanish grabbed as much of the New World as they could, then snatched it from each other. We meet the cast of sailors and their officers in the mid-18th century, during the absurd-sounding War of Jenkins’ Ear, so named because it arose from the allegation a Spanish sailor cut off a British sailor’s ear. Here’s what Grann gives away, right at the beginning of his tale. Across a span of work writers tend to reveal patterns, purposefully or not, and Grann seems drawn to people too obsessed for their own good, grinding themselves away, so focused on each step they never look up to see the horizon. ![]() ![]() In Killers of the Flower Moon, he wrote of Oklahoma’s Osage tribe, whose members were murdered for their oil money. ![]() In The Lost City of Z, he told the story of Capt Percy Fawcett, who in the 1920s disappeared into the Amazon searching for a hidden civilization. ![]()
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