the other perspective is told a second perspective from john bulkeley, the gunner. we do not know what bulkeley looks because he was born to the lower to middle class. he could not afford to have a portrait made of him. we know his thoughts. his intimate thoughts because he was a compulsive dyer ist. he was in many ways the most skilled seaman on the wager. and he was an instinctive leader. yet because he was not born into the aristocracy, he knew he would never become a commander of a warship. and the third perspective is told from the perspective and the point of view of john byron, who had been just a 16 year old midshipman on the wager when it set sail. he was born into the nobility and he later became the grandfather of the poet lord byron, whose poetry, including don, was greatly influenced. but he referred to as my great grand adds my great my granddad's narrative. now, unlike many of the people who had set sail on the wager he had volunteered for the mission. and this is a book and a story that is not only about the stories tell, but also the way stories us.