Batavia's Graveyard - Hardcover

Dash, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609607669 ISBN 13: 9780609607664

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2002

Synopsis

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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Review:

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"

"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

About the Author:

Mike Dash is the author of the national bestseller Tulipomania. A journalist and Cambridge-educated historian, he lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0609607669
• ISBN 13: 9780609607664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 381