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010			_a9781864710403
090			_9317064
101			_aeng _ceng
102			_aAUS
200			_aBatavia _bLIV _fPeter Fitzsimons
210			_a[S.l.] _cWilliam Heinemann Australia _d2011
215			_a1 vol. (490p.) _d24 cm
330			_aThe story begins 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. While Commandeur Francisco Pelsaert decides to take the long-boat across 2000 miles of open sea for help, his second-in- command Jeronimus Cornelisz takes over, quickly deciding that 250 people on a small island is unwieldy for the small number of supplies they have. Quietly, he puts forward a plan to 40 odd mutineers how they could save themselves, kill most of the rest and spare only a half-dozen or so women, including his personal fancy, Lucretia Jansz - one of the noted beauties of Holland - to service their sexual needs. A reign of terror begins, countered only by a previously anonymous soldier Wiebbe Hayes, who begins to gather to him those are prepared to do what it takes to survive...
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606			_aHistory _yAustralia
676			_a994
700			_aFitzsimons _bPeter
801			_aFR _bMO _c20120723