Author: EDWARDS, H.,
Title: Eilanden der Boze Geesten. [First dutch edition, translated from the original english Islands of Angry Ghosts, by Paul C.M. Dirken].
Description: Amsterdam-Antwerpen, Wereldbibliotheek, 1971. Original coloured stiff wrappers with covertitle and illustration, designed by E. Molhuysen. 200pp. Frontispiece (sketch-map of the region), synopsis printed on lower outer cover. Dutch language novel in which the history of the fate of a VOC merchant Batavia, stranded off Australia's Westcoast, carring a valuable cargo, the subsequent mutiny and terror which killed 125 passengers and faithful crew. Paperback edition (as publ.). Good to very good copy. (rubber stamped name on french title, private inscription on ti.-p.).

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