Mutiny, murder, rape, torture; a priceless treasure fuelling the basest human greed; a courageous journey in search of rescue the story of the Batavia, wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629, is part of the myth and legend of Australian history. Henrietta Drake-Brockman was determined to unearth the facts. Ten years of meticulous research resulted in Voyage to Disaster, a historical tour de force comprising the complete journals of Francisco Pelsaert translated from the Old Dutch by E. D. Drok, together with a revealing biography of Pelsaert, a man of many dimensions writer, historian, and administrator.
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Originally published in 1963 it tells the powerful story of the ship Batavia wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629, the mutiny of the crew and the career of Francisco Pelsaert, whose journal was translated from the Old Dutch. The tragic story is of the "greatest" drama in Australian history, filled with mayhem, murder and horror.
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