Batavia's Graveyard : The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by Dash, Mike
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- 0609607669
- ISBN 13
- 9780609607664
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From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia's Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's 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 Jeronimus's treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers.Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he'd learned in Holland's 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 Jeronimus's band of butchers.Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia's commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company's 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 Batavia's Graveyard.Impeccably researched and beautifully written, Batavia's Graveyard is the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash's place as one of the finest writers of the genre.From the Hardcover edition.
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- HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4621
- Title
- Batavia's Graveyard : The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Author
- Dash, Mike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Very Fine/New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine/New in Mylar
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0609607669
- ISBN 13
- 9780609607664
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, Incorporated,
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- MUTINY SHIPWRECKS HISTORY MILITARY GENERAL TRANSPORTATION SHIPS SHIPBUILDING 0-609-60766-9 NAUTICAL/SEA STORIES
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