Batavia [sound recording] : betrayal, shipwreck, murder, sexual slavery, courage : a spine-chilling chapter in Australian history / Peter FitzSimons ; read by Richard Aspel.
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SoundPublisher number: BAB 110321 | Bolinda AudioPublication details: Tullamarine, Vic. : Bolinda Audio, p2011Description: 14 sound discs (CD) (17 hr., 7 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. ; in containerContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio disc | volumeISBN: 9781742850818; 9781742677675Subject(s): Batavia (Ship) | Batavia (Ship) | Talking books on compact disc | Mutiny | Shipwrecks | Survival | Talking books | Mutiny -- Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos Islands (W.A.) -- History | Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos Islands (W.A.) | Survival | Talking books | Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc | Shipwrecks -- Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos Islands | Mutiny -- Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos Islands -- History | Western Australia -- Houtman AbrolhosGenre/Form: Audiobooks. | History. | Audiobooks. DDC classification: 919.4104 Read by Richard Aspel.Summary: The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland. The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night. While Commandeur Francisco Pelsaert decides to take the long-boat across 2000 miles of open sea for help, his second-in-command Jeronimus Cornelisz takes over, quickly deciding that 250 people on a small island is unwieldy for the small number of supplies they have. Quietly, he puts forward a plan to 40 odd mutineers how they could save themselves, kill most of the rest and spare only a half-dozen or so women, including his personal fancy, Lucretia Jansz, one of the noted beauties of Holland, to service their sexual needs. A reign of terror begins, countered only by a previously anonymous soldier Wiebbe Hayes, who begins to gather to him those are prepared to do what it takes to survive.
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| wnor- audio | Wundowie Wundowie General Stacks | 919 .4104 FIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AL42100063541B |
Unabridged.
Bolinda Audio: BAB 110321.
Read by Richard Aspel.
The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland. The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night. While Commandeur Francisco Pelsaert decides to take the long-boat across 2000 miles of open sea for help, his second-in-command Jeronimus Cornelisz takes over, quickly deciding that 250 people on a small island is unwieldy for the small number of supplies they have. Quietly, he puts forward a plan to 40 odd mutineers how they could save themselves, kill most of the rest and spare only a half-dozen or so women, including his personal fancy, Lucretia Jansz, one of the noted beauties of Holland, to service their sexual needs. A reign of terror begins, countered only by a previously anonymous soldier Wiebbe Hayes, who begins to gather to him those are prepared to do what it takes to survive.
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