The Wreck of the Batavia
Subtitle: A True Story
Edition: 1st Thunder's Mouth Press Ed edition
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781560258216
Subjects: World history; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Shipwrecks; History: World; History; History - General History; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc; Modern - 17th Century; History / Modern / 17th Century; Australia; Prosper (Fishing boat)
First sentence: For three hundred years - from the end of the fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth -Western navigators explored the world and developed vast commercial empires.