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Batavia's Graveyard
Batavia's Graveyard | Mike Dash
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Examines the story of the Batavia, a seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company treasure ship, which was shipwrecked during a mutiny led by Jeronimus Corneliszoon, an event that led to the slaughter of more than one hundred innocent survivors.
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Some annoying features (in about 2 sentences he'll manage to refer to the same person by first name, last name, and rank, I could have done with a map of NW Australia) but a fascinating true story of survivorship and even more fascinating historical background.

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#coffeeandabook My book's cover

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From the Shipwreck Galleries Museum, Fremantle