BataviaBatavia 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