The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story by Simon Leys

The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story

PETITE #7

Simon Leys

160 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the western coast of the Australian continent. Most of the nearly three hundred men, women and children on boar...

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