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Chargement... Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (édition 2002)par Mike Dash (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreL'Archipel des Hérétiques par Mike Dash
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  Tikimoof | Feb 17, 2022 |   The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches. The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java—some 1,500 miles north—to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, and the nightmare was only beginning. Alhickey1 | Oct 13, 2020 |  ) EdwinKort | Oct 18, 2019 | We are definitely in Lord of the Flies territory rather than Swiss Family Robinson with somewhere between 110 and 125 survivors of the wreck being killed by Jeronimus Cornelisz and his followers, who had been plotting a mutiny on the ship. The sections on the historical background discussing the early days of the VOC and Dutch life at the time were the most interesting. However, the book definitely needed a better editor. I spent a long time wondering whether the island referred to in the text as the High Land to the north of the wreck site was the same as the island on the map called the High Island to the northwest of the wreck site. A list of characters might have been useful as the author would often refer to one person 3 times in 2 sentences once each by their first name, surname, or rank, and there seems to have been a distinct shortage of names in the 17th century Netherlands. A map of the relevant parts of Australia would also have been useful -- too much of they may have landed at place I've never heard of and couldn't tell you where it is or at another place I've never heard of and couldn't tell you where it is. (  )1  Robertgreaves | May 20, 2018 | Voilà, c'est une histoire vraie, et une histoire vraiment horrible, et vraiment bien écrite aussi. Bien plus que le récit d'un naufrage et de ses suites pour les survivants, c'est un témoignage sur la société hollandaise du XVIIème siècle, les atrocités commises, en partie par un groupe d'hommes dits hérétiques, mais en partie aussi des atrocités très comparables commises au nom du commerce, de la religion, même de la justice, et tutti quanti. Alors bon malgré tout, et très franchement, je me serais assez bien passée des scènes de torture et de tuerie: je ne suis pas sûre d'avoir envie de connaître tout ce que sont capables de s'infliger mes congénères les uns aux autres. Ce n'est donc pas une belle histoire, mais c'est une histoire prenante, qui s'attaque sans fausse manoeuvre aux différents aspects qui rentrent en ligne de compte: la société de l'époque, le contexte historique, la psychologie des personnages, et la documentation est solide! (  )1 elisala | Feb 16, 2018 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia's Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeed--but for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Java--some 1,800 miles north--to summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus's treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers. Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he'd learned in Holland's secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus's band of butchers. Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia's commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company's gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia's Graveyard. Impeccably researched and beautifully written, Batavia's Graveyard is the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash's place as one of the finest writers of the genre. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I liked the backstory, though I didn't really like how Dash divided the story - I would have preferred it to be more chronological to keep the names straight. I consistently had trouble with the commander, skipper, and heretic's names.
My other main complaint was how much detail Dash went into for the deaths. It seemed excessive and bloodthirsty. I wasn't as concerned with the division between known accounts and filling in the blanks as I would be with Erik Larson (always a good thing).
Other than that though, I liked all of the contextualization of the time. I liked the reminder of how dangerous heretics were, even for beliefs that would seem fairly tame to modern standards.
But holy shit it was so bloody. Horrifying. (