Batavia's Graveyard : The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (Paperback)

from katylit

This is a very well-written account of life on board a Dutch East Indianman ship as well as a gruesome mutiny and it's aftermath. Mike Dash has obviously done extensive research and there are so many fascinating details that one really does get a vivid idea of what it must have been like to live ...

from JeffV

With the chance that the upcoming game on the East India Company doesn't suck, I thought I'd read up on the subject. This book is the true story (as best as it could be pieced together from records) of the 1629 wreck of the merchant ship Batavia off the coast of Australia while on it's maiden voy...

from amerynth

Wow... what an amazing story! Mike Dash's "Batavia's Graveyard" tells the story of the Batavia, a ship that was dashed on a coral reef near Australia in 1629. More than 200 survivors climbed onto a nearby island with limited supplies. Their leader, Jeronimus and a band of mutineers, set about sys...

from KidSisyphus

"We have just come out of such a sorrow that the mind is still a little confused." -- Gijsbert Bastiaensz ***** Commerce. Psychopaths. What do the two have in common? If I were asked that before I read this book, I'd be glib and respond with something like “trajectory.” But no. I've learned it's ...

from bcquinnsmom

If you are planning on reading this, let me give you a heads up. What's between the covers of this book is NOT for the squeamish...I thought the story of the wreck of the Essex was bad but this takes the cake. Batavia's Graveyard was the name given to a small island off the western coast of Austr...