The Wreck Of the Batavia, and Prosper

Australia.: Black Inc.. 2005.. Maps, colour photographic illustrations, xvi + 113 pages, slight shelf wear, prior owner's signature in pencil front free endpaper, small octavo, good hardback copy in dustjacket. "In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on a coral archipelago off the west coast of Australia. Most people on board escaped from… Read more about this item

Melbourne; Black Inc.; (2005).. First Australian Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. xvi, 114; 2 colour illustrations, 1 b/w illustration; original grey cloth with title in white on spine, dustjacket; a fine copy.

Melbourne: Black Inc., 2005. 1st edition. New Book. small octavo. dust jacket xii + 113pp., col. pls., maps, ÔIn 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 western coast of the Australian continent. Most of the people on board ?… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Black Inc. / Schwartz Publishing, 2010. Paperback small, good condition, pages toned as common, rear cover creased, minor edgewear. 111 pp. Two maritime essays by Simon Leys (a pen-name), a literary cr itic and sinologist. The first essay relates the tale of the wreck of the Dutch East India Company ship 'Batavia' on the Abrolhos Islands off the… Read more about this item

Black Inc, Melbourne 2005. 19.5 x 13.0cms114pp fine hardback & dustwrapper Leys uses the scandal of the Batavia's wreck and massacre to contemplate the nature of totalitarianism and visionary ideologues. In addition, the Prosper essay recalls his experiences on a tuna-fishing boat from Brittany.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.