Peter FitzSimons Talks Batavia

[@diekje8728]

I read his book and it was so good, I got pissed when I finished it. I didn’t want it to be over

[@neddyladdy]

I hope you were able to go to work on the morning.

[@bas7072]

By far the best video and explanation of Batavias story. Thanks for your enthusiasm and accuracy!

[@emusaurus]

Someone else did a 5 part very comprehensive series of the story. Each part went for 1.5 hours.

[@slicktires2011]

@@emusaurus Defragged History

[@1969cmp]

I read Island of Angry Ghosts about thirty years ago and I am about to finish Fitzsimons' Batavia. Great book. Brutal story but there are heroes ☺

[@alneal100]

I read "Islands of Angry Ghosts" too! Back in 1978.

[@elrey8876]

Anybody who found this interesting should read about the wreck of the Dutch East India flagship Zuytdorp off Western Australia in 1712. The modern tale of its discover and the ancient tale of its wreck are both equally interesting.

[@Bopomama]

Also there were other reasons why Jeronimus Cornelius applied to be on the Batavia. He was an apothecary who lost his business after his 8 month old baby died of syphilis. This stigma from this was huge. His business dried up and his debts were mounting. He was also seeking to avoid his creditors.

[@edbroaotearoa1198]

Peter did such a good job in giving the story its due respect.

[@sabrinafair35]

What a story! Thank you for posting!

[@eddieandrews3335]

I have a couple of older books on the Batavia and I feel Peter's one is by far the best. He has a common sense and matter of factly approach to human nature which really grabbed me. I just wish they would do a big budget movie or series off his book

[@sabrinafair35]

Mini-series material! Epic story ... incredible.

[@MackerelCat]

This story really is a fine example of the madness and depravity that lurks within the human soul.

[@garymitchell6056]

Couldnt stop listening to Peters enthusiastic account- even though I knew the story!

[@jankirchhofer5624]

Doing my research on the Batavia and found this to be very interesting. Thank you.

[@escaping_the_algorithm]

Excellent story and excellent story telling.

[@hypothebai4634]

So "Abrolhos" is a contraction of abrir seu olho - open your eyes. It must have been a common abbreviation in the past because there are a collection of islands off the coast of Brazil which are called the Abrolhos as well.

[@CommonCentrist82]

I hope Hollywood is paying attention to this story. I need to see this movie.

[@jackiecook535]

Stephen 1982 Hollywood would butcher it like they always do.

[@patricksputnick5094]

When it is made it just has to be an European and a Australian-New Zealand production. Hollywood would just ruin it with their PC-ridicule, their obsession with modernizing historical characters, and dialogues that serve no purpose etc.@Scott Laux

[@agnostic47]

There was a film made in the 70s and an excellent docudrama in 1995. This guy is promoting his book.

[@aussiesoapgirl3378]

No Hollywood will ruin it. They destroy everything they touch.

[@blackwolf4653]

Sounds like a script for Tarantino.

[@kiriwest886]

Relevant to New Zealanders. Aotearoa. Thank you for sharing!

[@alexspano6970]

There was an Australian movie made about the Batavia story in early to mid 1970's

[@inbankwetrustshakur3523]

Wanted 2 know more about Batavia, because the corporation ALDI is headquartered in Batavia, IL

[@kevinjhonson5925]

Just finished the book now I’m looking for more info. I found the brutality so vile I was finding myself getting angry.

[@samueljesse2179]

The ringleader got the breaking wheel punishment in Jakarta. Breaker Morants wife Irish born Daisy Bates who was a bush missionary to aboriginal people noticed that the Aboriginal people in the Murchison valley practiced European agricultural methods, and had blond hair and blue eyes .This is to be region where the morooned Dutch sailors were left to rot on the Australian mainland.

[@johnlok905]

Mum told me about this about 1960. Later here was something about it in Parade magazine or in the book reviews of the Saturday SMH.

[@vadimkoller6232]

Great story and formidably presented

[@salliegallegos918]

This is the first I’ve heard of the Batavia.

[@casplant]

I have been talking about this... but this doesn't make a movie....

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

It's not really an "Australian" story, it's a Dutch story.

[@MackerelCat]

Well it happens near Australia and they were the ones who found and salvaged the wreck, and plenty of Dutch people settled in Aus so I think it’s ok.

[@poepflater]

The VOC moved 5400 shiploads with an average just over 200 per ship totaling an estimated 1 million people to the east, of which only one third returned.

[@bobnice3044]

Hi I'm reading Mike Dash's excellent book now, Question..would these Dutch people have been the first people/ humans to ever set foot on these Islands? is there any record>

[@philhutchison5566]

If you read/listen to Peter's book it does describe another dutch mariner who, about 20 years earlier, discovered the route . He stopped on one of those chain of islands and nailed a metal plate to a tree on the island. He told all to avoid the route because of the reefs in the area.

[@darylwilson1915]

No. That island was named Dirk hartog island & is 300km further north & close to the west australian coastline.

[@sueacres8784]

No that was the aborigines

[@kiriwest886]

Where can I find this book?

[@nicolasrose3968]

Ah , no , you were right the first time Pete , at the Abrolhos you turn to port having caught "the roaring forties"...

[@dancarter7581]

great story

[@alneal100]

Shakespeare died in 1616. Batavia sank in 1629.

[@kevin6293]

Coincidence?

[@Bopomama]

Iago is a character from Othello, not Hamlet.

[@kingsleykrasch6945]

Peter ,you did well here cobber.

[@jlemaire9418]

Cornelias is a guy who'll get ahead at all costs. Thats what turns the planet yo.

[@johnlok905]

Shakespeare was not alive at this time, having died in 1616.

[@olafjensen4508]

Not bad. Good author for a convict

[@strayandrongo7461]

To think selling short is cheating is such a stupid shallow view. It just creates liquidity, that's all. It doesn't drive price change.

[@14screech]

I recommend people Read Islands of angry ghosts before they read Fitzy's book. Too much non fiction for me

[@sooz5703]

yeah me too.. He did a better job on the mutiny on the Bounty story.

[@levierdragon]

No doubt about Trump's involvement here.

[@crazystuff3538]

Judas thats so funny

[@danahsutton101]

I would rather listen to the audio book than this interview.

[@brendanmcdonough8964]

Iago = Othello

[@AlexG-mt5be]

Ever heard of the raft of meduse? The same story except on a 100 by 20 foot make shift raft . Oh the French 😂

[@jlemaire9418]

Jerry Corn 2024

[@TheTruthNEGFTW]

i would love to be involved with a film of this, i could be good l otto smit

[@sabrinafair35]

Right?! I want to write a screen play. But, stick to the facts; interesting enough without embelishing, for heavven's sake!

[@danieljacobsen888]

Why don't you, =) maybe you/these guys/we xD should write eyeworks the have made the movie of Michiel the Ruyter about a famous dutch admiral. Liked the podcast and i also thought make this a movie. And than they said something about Sauron =p succes and grtz from the Netherlands

[@jaswinderahluwalia]

Speech wrecks it, fast and hurried otherwise good informative

[@chloeew4627]

Wee Pete always spins a good yarn , just ask him ,decent sales to his woke public .😂😂

[@dereckhasken9055]

there was blasphemy??? terrible!!!

[@agnostic47]

"This isn't marketing schtik". It's absolutley marketing schtik. To promote his book. For this guy to be claiming he'd never heard of it in 1999 simply means he was uninformed. There was an excellent documentary made about the Batavia in 1995. If you look through the posts people refer to a film from the 70s and several other articles. "without ruining MY story". Skakespeare dies over a decade before the events of the Batavia. At least get some basic facts right.

[@capt.pseudonymous188]

Knob

[@kiriwest886]

Where can I find this book?