Title: Batavia (Keywords) and Author: Peter FitzSimons (Keywords)

Batavia is the greatest story in Australia's history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adven...

The 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 a...

La aventura del Batavia combina en una sola historia el nacimiento de la primera multinacional, la brutalidad de la colonización, el combate entre el bien y el mal, un motín, un primer encuentro entre civilizaciones, amor, barro, sangre, una dictadura de corte fascista, asesinatos, esclavitud sex...