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Read by: Richard Aspel
Running Time: 17 hrs 43 mins
Categories: Biography, Memoirs, Historical, Australiana
Released: 2011
Media: mp3 on CD, Unabridged Audio Book
ISBN: 9781742855547
Peter John Allen Fitzsimons AM (born 29 June 1961) is an Australian author, and radio and television celebrity. He is a former national representative rugby union player and has been the chair of the Australian Republic Movement since 2015. Fitzsimons has written for The Sydney Morning Herald since 1988, and has been a sports columnist for that publication since 1987. He regularly appears on the Australian Foxtel program The Back Page, where he gets to share his opinions on many topics.
Fitzsimons is a prolific writer and is one of Australia's best-selling non-fiction writers. He has written books about subjects such as Nancy Wake, the shipwreck of the Batavia, Sir John Monash, Breaker Morant, Charles Kingsford-Smith, Ned Kelly and John Eales.
Fitzsimons is married to Australian TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson. They have three children and live in Sydney.
Fitzsimons has outed himself as an atheist and a republican. On 13 June 2011 Fitzsimons was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to sporting organisations.
Synopsis
The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night.
While Commandeur Francisco Pelsaert decides to take the longboat across 2,000 miles of open sea for help, his second-in-command Jeronimus Cornelisz takes over, quickly deciding that 250 people on a small island is unwieldy for the small number of supplies they have.
Quietly, he puts forward a plan to 40 odd mutineers how they could save themselves, kill most of the rest, and spare only a half-dozen or so women, including his personal fancy, Lucretia Jansz - one of the noted beauties of Holland - to service their sexual needs.
A reign of terror begins, countered only by a previously anonymous soldier, Wiebbe Hayes, who begins to gather to him those are prepared to do what it takes to survive....
"Incredible story! This is an incredible story, and a little piece of history that reads exactly as a high drama, thriller fiction. While there are moments when the telling of the particulars is a little repetitive, and the dramatic narrating style is a little overbearing in parts, but nevertheless, it's a story worth hearing." - Amazon.au Reviewer
"Gripping! Amazingly, few people have heard of this tragic and gruesome story. Well researched and well written, although I hated the way the author threw in the odd Dutch word. My advice is to skip the introduction as it goes on forever". - Amazon.au Reviewer
"Just wow!! What a story and how well written. I was so addicted that I was walking around with my earplugs in for 5 days barely speaking to anyone at home!! - Amazon.au Reviewer
"Cracking good story. Amazing story of the evil in men and the qualities of leadership. Well researched and beautifully told, and well read by the narrator." - Amazon Reviewer
On Media
Audiobook on CD-ROM, complete with cover art on CD. Supplied in windowed CD sleeve, no case provided.
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