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Mike dash, the author of tulipomania, batavias graveyard, thug, satans circus and now the first family, was born, in 1963, just outside london, and educated at gatow school, berlin, wells cathedral school, somerset, and peterhouse, cambridge, where he read history and ran the cambridge student magazine. The true story of the mad heretic who led historys bloodiest mutiny. His description of the hazards and discomforts of sea travel in that era is classic, and he brilliantly evokes the stuffy and regimented culture of the dutch east india company. The true story of the mad heretic who led historys bloodiest mutiny mass mkt paperback by mike dash isbn. The other issue with this book is just the disturbing nature of the subject. He was jeronimus corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a tiny coral island less than half a mile long. The batavia was the pride of the companys fleet, a tangible symbol of the worlds richest and most powerful commercial monopo. From the bestselling author of tulipomania comes batavias graveyard, the.
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Batavias graveyard kindle edition by mike dash author 4. Jeronimus cornelisz, a sinister apothecary with a terrifying personal philosophy influenced by rosicrucianism who set himself up as the ruler of the island. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called batavias graveyard. The true story of the mad heretic who led historys bloodiest mutiny is a book released in 2001 by welsh author mike dash about the dutch east india company ship batavia, shipwrecked in 1629 on a small atoll of the houtman abrolhos, off the western shore of australia. Our rbdigital platform distributes the broadest array of digital content. Being an australian i knew something of the batavia but not the full story. More recently, sony has converted its books from bbeb to epub and is now. The true story of the mad heretic who led historys bloodiest mutiny an adult version of lord of the flies that is, m. From the bestselling author of tulipomania comes batavias graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival it was the autumn of 1628, and the batavia, the dutch east india companys flagship, was loaded with a kings ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to java.
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