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Title:

THE WRECK OF THE BATAVIA

By:

Simon Leys

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Hardback

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Publisher:

ATLANTIC BOOKS

Pub. date:

1 July, 2007

Edition:

Main

Pages:

128

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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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Black & white integrated illustrations

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