Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny - Softcover

"Brilliantly crafted, deeply researched . . . a gruesome and powerfully written history. [Dash] provides a thorough look at the underlying subject of all expedition stories--the human heart." --Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)

"Horrific and mesmerizing . . . No history I've read in years places you so deeply inside a piece of the past."--National Geographic Adventure

"Scholarly and exhilarating. Not only history, but an enthralling sea yarn and true-crime thriller." --Associated Press

"I read it in one sitting, absolutely enchanted." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The best-selling author of Tulipomania offers an intriguing study of the Batavia, a seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company treasure ship, which was shipwrecked during a mutiny led by Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a psychotic apothecary, an event that led to the slaughter of more than one hundred innocent survivors. Reprint.