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Examines the story of the Batavia, a seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company treasure ship, which was shipwrecked during a mutiny led by Jeronimus Corneliszoon, an event that led to the slaughter of more than one hundred innocent survivors.
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“Brilliantly crafted, deeply researched . . . a gruesome and powerfully written history. [Dash] provides a thorough look at the underlying subject of all expedition stories—the human heart.” —Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)
“Horrific and mesmerizing . . . No history I’ve read in years places you so deeply inside a piece of the past.”—National Geographic Adventure
“Scholarly and exhilarating. Not only history, but an enthralling sea yarn and true-crime thriller.” —Associated Press
“I read it in one sitting, absolutely enchanted.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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“Horrific and mesmerizing . . . No history I’ve read in years places you so deeply inside a piece of the past.”—National Geographic Adventure
“Scholarly and exhilarating. Not only history, but an enthralling sea yarn and true-crime thriller.” —Associated Press
“I read it in one sitting, absolutely enchanted.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Mike Dash is the author of the national bestseller Tulipomania. A journalist and Cambridge-educated historian, he lives in London.
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- EditoreCrown Pub
- Data di pubblicazione2002
- ISBN 10 0609607669
- ISBN 13 9780609607664
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine381
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1. From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavias Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Companys flagship, was loaded with a kings ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Companys fleet, a tangible symbol of the worlds richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas.With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeed-but for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Java-some 1,800 miles north-to summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimuss treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers.Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy hed learned in Hollands secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimuss band of butchers.Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavias commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Companys gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavias Graveyard.Impeccably researched and beautifully written, Batavias Graveyard is the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dashs place as one of the finest writers of the genre. Codice articolo DADAX0609607669
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