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Pelsaert's Nightmare: A novel
Pelsaert's Nightmare: A novel
Pelsaert's Nightmare: A novel
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In the antipodean winter of 1629, the Dutch East Indiaman 'Batavia' was wrecked on the desolate cays of the Houtman Abrolhos, an island chain lying beyond the sea horizon of what is now Western Australia.

One year later her merchant commander, Francisco Pelsaert, lies dying in a mildewed room outside the walls of Batavia Castle (mo

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Release dateMar 27, 2020
ISBN9780648688129
Pelsaert's Nightmare: A novel
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Gregory Warwick Hansen

Gregory Warwick Hansen lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife, Sherrie. Having majored in literature and history at Monash University, 'Pelsaert's Nightmare' is his debut novel. An early manuscript was shortlisted for the inaugural 2016 First Novel Prize in the United Kingdom, and a later draft was a First Place Category Winner in the 2018 Chaucer Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction. Greg has also adapted the novel into a screenplay.

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