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Batavia's Graveyard, The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by Mike Dash
- HISTORY
- 2003
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A fascinating yet chilling account of a 17th-century shipwreck not for the squeamish. A mutinous heretic and his followers systematically murder over 100 passengers of a Dutch East India Company merchant vessel after it is marooned off the coast of Australia. Besides telling the tale in in gruesome detail, historian Mike Dash treats questions of navigation, religion, medicine, psychology and sociology in their historical context.
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