Ebook: Batavia: betrayal, shipwreck, murder, sexual slavery, courage, a spine-chilling chapter in Australian history
Author: FitzSimons Peter
- Tags: Mutiny--Australia--Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.)--History, Shipwrecks--Australia--Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.), Mutiny, Shipwrecks, Shipwreck survival, Electronic books, History, Batavia (Ship), Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.), Mutiny -- Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos (W.A.) -- History, Western Australia -- Houtman Abrolhos
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
- City: Sydney;Western Australia;Houtman Abrolhos
- Language: English
- epub
The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, natural nobility, survival, retribution, rescue, first contact with native peoples and so much more. Described by author Peter FitzSimons as "a true Adults Only version of Lord of the Flies, meeting Nightmare on Elm Street," the story is set 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....