The Batavia and its many stories

... its connection to the American Revolution; the railroads and their importance to the ... She received many of the images and stories for Batavia from local ...

1629 Mutiny on the Batavia by Henry Van Zanden - Dutch Australian

The events and the tragic love story eventually unite with the survivors of the shipwreck after their arrival in Batavia. ... How many people ...

Dutch Batavia: Exposing the Hierarchy of the Dutch Colonial City

The city's basic rectangular gridded shape, its walls and canals, form the basis of an abbreviated image of Batavia on a French map of the north coast of Java ...

BATAVIA - A Human Story - FilmFreeway

The richest Dutch Company (VOC) sends its nautical pride (The Batavia) towards the East Indian. The ship is loaded with weapons and unique gems. Travel ...

Book review: “Batavia's Graveyard” by Mike Dash - Patrick T. Reardon

The story of the Batavia, its shipwreck and the imposition of Cornelisz's bloody and demonic reign is amazingly complex, and, in Batavia's ...

The history - Greta van der Rol

The History of the Wreck of the Batavia. It's a true story and quite famous in Australia and Holland. ... Most of the passengers and crew survived the ...

Mutiny on the Batavia - YouTube

... story that makes the Bounty Mutiny look like a fairy-tale. Presented ... The Most Horrifying Nautical Disaster You've Never Heard Of.

Batavia, Dutch East Indies - Wikipedia

Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its ...

We studied the tree rings of the Batavia shipwreck timbers

The subject of books, articles, plays, and even an opera, Batavia was wrecked on a chain of small islands off the coast of Western Australia. Of ...

The Batavia Shipwreck is the craziest Australian horror story you've ...

If you were watching a dramatised version of the events surrounding the Batavia, you'd think there were too many story elements. About sixty ...

Mutiny, shipwreck, murder: The incredible true story Russell Crowe ...

Though Peter FitzSimons describes the tale of the Batavia as "the greatest story in the history of the world" it has never been turned into a ...

The Batavia's Story of Mutiny and Murder Gets a New Chapter

Whatever his exact motives, he and a contingent of men mutinied, killing many of the ship's passengers and crew in an attempt to control the ...

Picturing the unimaginable: a new look at the wreck of the Batavia

The shipwreck of the Batavia and subsequent murders of 115 men, women and children have inspired many retellings. A new exhibition combines ...

The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper by Simon Leys - Black Inc Books

In 1629, the Batavia was wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived.

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

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 ...

Historical articles - Greta van der Rol

Many books have been written about the infamous events surrounding the wreck of the Dutch merchantman Batavia in 1629. My novel, To Die a Dry Death, is just ...

What a Shipwreck's Tree Rings Reveal - Sapiens.org

The Dutch ship was 45.3 meters long and 600 metric tons in size. It sank on its maiden voyage to Southeast Asia. The shipwreck was found in the ...

Batavia by Peter FitzSimons - Penguin Books Australia

Batavia is the greatest story in Australia's history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.

Islands of Angry Ghosts: The Story of Batavia, Australia's Bloodiest ...

More than three hundred years later, Hugh Edwards, a West Australian reporter and diving enthusiast, started to search for the lost ship. When Edwards and his ...

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad… by Mike Dash

... most powerful commercial ... He now retreats from the heat to his home studio, where he records a mix of fiction and nonfiction titles.