Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1843545810
ISBN-13
9781843545811
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Imprint
Atlantic Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 12th, 2007
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
248 grams
Dimensions
20.50 x 13.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
True stories: discovery / historical / scientificMaritime history
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In this riveting account of the shipwreck of the Batavia, Simon Leys travels to the site of the disaster to evoke the brutality and tragedy of the bloody island massacre that befell the ship's survivors.
In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived the wreck, only to become victims of a visionary psychopath who, with the help of a dozen mutineers, organised a methodical massacre of the hapless community awaiting rescue. The tragedy of the Batavia seized the European imagination even more than the sinking of the Titanic would do in the twentieth century.
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