Alex Vogel’s Reviews > Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny > Status Update

Magnificent read. Totally delivered.

5 stars so far.

The testimonial on the cover is pretty accurate: 'Utterly absorbing'.

Good stuff.

"... the most unusual ingredient in any apothecary's store was 'mummy', ground human flesh taken (at least in theory) from plundered Egyptian tombs. [...] The best mummy had 'a reinous harden'd, black shining surface' [...] European bodies might be substituted, but it was important that the corpse [...] had not succumbed to disease [...] therefore, in practice, the principal source was bodies of executed criminals."

I'm as far in as the Amazon Kindle preview allows me. So far: right down my alley - detailed historical context written in a marvellously engaging way, to preface the shipwreck is exactly what I was looking for. Eagerly awaiting the paper book's arrival to arrive to continue. Just can't make friends with the idea of getting an E-Reader, even if it makes content available stat.