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The squeamish murderer: Batavia's Graveyard.(The Wreck of the Batavia: And Prosper)(Book Review)
The Wreck of the Batavia; and Prosper, by Simon Leys; Black Inc, 2005, $29.95.
SIMON LEYS--sinologist and novelist--tells a story of finding a human skull in a plastic, three-litre Peter's ice-cream container. It was stored on a shelf between the vinegar and the tomato sauce in a fisherman's hut on Beacon Island off the West Australian coast not far from Geraldton. The island was the notorious "Batavia's Graveyard" where the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia was wrecked in 1629.
For three months in that year the island was the scene of an horrific grand guignol that has, ever since, engaged historians and poets. A gang of killers murdered over 100 castaways ...
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