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Title	:	Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Author	:	Mike Dash
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	May 27th 2003 by Broadway Books (first published February 12th 2002)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Adventure. Crime. True Crime. Maritime

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny

Mike Dash

Paperback | Pages: 512 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 2744 Users | 220 Reviews

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In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly.

The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches. The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java—some 1,500 miles north—to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, and the nightmare was only beginning.

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Original Title:	Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
ISBN:	0609807161 (ISBN13: 9780609807163)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jeronimus Corneliszoon

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What if you organized a mutiny and on the night before the planned attack your ship ran aground on a tiny deserted island group about 100 miles off the equally deserted west coast of Australia? That is a problem, just one of many that beset the mutineers as well as the several hundred innocent crew and passengers. How will the meager rations and fresh water be shared? Being somewhat off of established trade routes how can help be obtained?Taking advantage of Dutch records and personal accounts

Life on a Dutch East India Company ship in the 1620s was pretty awful and nasty in the best of circumstances - but add shipwreck, mutiny, and murder to the mix and you have a particularly grim but fascinating story, exceptionally well-written. A quick and very entertaining read - best Mike Dash book that I have read to date.

Where to begin.Non-fiction story of a shipwreck. A Dutch East India company ship carrying over 300 people, chests of silver coins and the prefabricated gateway to the fort at Batavia (Jakarta) ran aground on a coral reef 50 miles west of Australia. Most of those onboard survived. Only after they disembarked on Houtman's Abrolhos, a misery inducing collection of low coral islands did it all start to get much worse, eventually very few manage to survive and make it to the Dutch East Indies and not

This is the third nonfiction "shipwreck" type book I've read recently and it was my least favorite. Sometimes the super foreign names were hard to follow (and I speak German, which is somewhat close to Dutch) and I never was able to care about any of the characters. I think the fault may have lay in the sheer number of people who were involved in this story, far more than in The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty and In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of

After reading this book, I think that under favorable circumstances, height of human cruelty could far surpass the physical height of Olympus Mons. Twice. Because if not for the hyperinflation and the Versailles treaty, Adolf Hitler would have been a shitty painter and Hermann Göring would have been an exceptionally shitty ballet dancer. But I never felt more confident about my assumptions (although they were derived after many complicated calculations and permutations) until I read Mike Dash's

On its maiden voyage, the Batavia crashed into shallow waters and the passengers had to take smaller boats to an island in order to survive. What ensued was no less than an adult Lord of the Flies. What happens when you are short on resources? You start killing. Those who seized control killed people for the smallest infractions. It didn't matter if you were a man, woman, or baby. Once the killers got a taste of killing, they started killing just for the hell of it. I am glad I now know this

Very thorough account of the disaster and unbelievable events that followed. Particularly well detailed research on the individuals involved, Dutch society and what happened to the survivors.Well worth the read.