A Narrative of the dangers and distresses which befel Isaac Morris, and seven more of the crew belonging to the Wager Store-Ship, which attended Commodore Anson, in his voyage to the South Sea, etc

Eight men who after surviving the shipwreck of The Wager, were abandoned on the coast of Patagonia by their crew after they had swum ashore to gather food for their starving shipmates. Hunting seal and wild horses for food, taming wild dogs, attempting to trek along the coast in the hopes of reaching a Spanish city where they might be taken in as prisoners of war, captured by Native Americans (who treated them better than the Spaniards, Morris notes); Isaac Morris's account is not only full of fear and adventure, but offers a rare, first-hand look into wild Patagonia and the true cultures, kindnesses, and braveries of the native people.