- History, Nonfiction, Cornelisz, Jeronimus, Mutiny
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.
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Grave, earnest, resolved and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Mike Dash
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 399
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Crown Publishing Group, Crown
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780609807163
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“JERONIMUS HAD NEVER MEANT TO GO TO SEA.”
Mike Dash is a Welsh writer, historian and researcher. He is best known for books and articles dealing with dramatic yet little-known episodes in history. - Wikipedia
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