In 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 Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived the wreck, only to become victims of a visionary psychopath who, with the help of a dozen mutineers, organised a methodical massacre of the hapless community awaiting rescue. The tragedy of the Batavia seized the European imagination even more than the sinking of the Titanic would do in the twentieth century.
- ISBN10 1560258217
- ISBN13 9781560258216
- Publish Date 20 December 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 April 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Thunder's Mouth Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English