Batavia : betrayal, shipwreck, murder, sexual slavery, courage : a spine-chilling chapter in Australian history.

By: FitzSimons, Peter, 1961-Material type: TextTextPublisher: North Sydney, N.S.W. : William Heinemann, 2011Description: xxii, 490 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cmContent type: cartographic | still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781864710403 (hbk.); 9781864711349 (pbk.)Subject(s): Batavia (Ship) | Batavia (Ship) | Batavia (Ship) | Batavia (Ship) | Batavia (Ship) | Shipwreck survival -- Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.) | Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc | Mutiny -- History -- 17th century | Shipwrecks -- Australia -- History -- 17th century | Shipwrecks Western Australia Houtman Abrolhos Islands | Mutiny Western Australia Houtman Abrolhos Islands History | Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.) | Mutiny -- Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.) -- History | Shipwreck survival -- Western Australia | Shipwrecks -- Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos | Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc | Airplane crash survival | Survival at sea | Shipwreck survival | Shipwreck survival -- Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos Islands | Mutiny | Shipwreck survival | Shipwrecks | Survival | Shipwrecks -- Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos Islands | Mutiny -- Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos Islands -- History | Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos | Australia -- Discovery and exploration | Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos | Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.) | Netherlands -- Antiquities | Western Australia -- Antiquities | Shipwrecks | Mutiny | Multiple killings | Western Australia | History, Pre-1801 | Batavia (Ship) | AustralianGenre/Form: Children's nonfiction | History. DDC classification: 919.4104 LOC classification: G530.B358 | F57 2011
Contents:
Maps on end papers. -Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-470) and index. -It is no surprise that the barbarity and evil that came in the wake of the wreck of the Batavia has inspired books, radio and TV documentaries, plays and an opera. Lust, jealously, greed, madness, deception, rape, murder -- all the classic ingredients conspire in the Batavia story to produce a scenario that is truly frightening.
Summary: It is no surprise that the barbarity and evil that came in the wake of the wreck of the Batavia has inspired books, radio and TV documentaries, plays and an opera. Lust, jealously, greed, madness, deception, rape, murder - all the classic ingredients conspire in the Batavia story to produce a scenario that is truly frightening.
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Maps on end papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-470) and index.

Maps on end papers. -Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-470) and index. -It is no surprise that the barbarity and evil that came in the wake of the wreck of the Batavia has inspired books, radio and TV documentaries, plays and an opera. Lust, jealously, greed, madness, deception, rape, murder -- all the classic ingredients conspire in the Batavia story to produce a scenario that is truly frightening.

It is no surprise that the barbarity and evil that came in the wake of the wreck of the Batavia has inspired books, radio and TV documentaries, plays and an opera. Lust, jealously, greed, madness, deception, rape, murder - all the classic ingredients conspire in the Batavia story to produce a scenario that is truly frightening.

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