Book Review
The Night Ship: Historical shipwreck uncovers a haunting, moving story
Jess Kidd has written a superbly researched narrative that brings long-ago atrocities to the modern age
The Batavia, the flagship of the Dutch East India Company, set sail to the capital of the Dutch East Indies in 1628 and was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a cluster of small islands off the western coast of Australia, on June 4, 1629. Around 300 passengers survived to make their way ashore, with approximately 40 drowning. Of those who made it, many were killed by their own party, under the command of mutinous ship ...
