$36.00
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2012
Summary
Batavia is the greatest story in Australia’s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.
“a book that can’t be put down.” - Toowoomba Chronicle
FitzSimons knows how to make words race like eager sled dogs on their homeward run. - Newcastle Herald
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 adventure, mutiny, shi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781864711349 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1864711345 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 650g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 160mm x 38mm |
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About The Author
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, and a busy events and motivational speaker. He is the author of over twenty-seven books, including Tobruk, Kokoda, Batavia, Eureka, Ned Kelly, Gallipoli and biographies of Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nick Farr-Jones, Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales, and is one of Australia’s biggest selling non-fiction authors of the last fifteen years.
Peter was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations. He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney. His forthcoming book is Fromelles and Pozieres- In the Trenches of Hell.
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