Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg
Regine's Eleanor book, with an altered title, is sadly unavailable.
I'm sorry, I'm of no use at all. I have only one safe bet left, though you may have read it already. It is Batavia's Graveyard (2002) by Mike Dash. The book is about the historical ship-wreck of a Dutch East India vessel on one of the Abrolhos islands near the coast of Australia, and the subsequent mutiny by its apothecary, a raving lunatic named Jeronimus Corneliszoon, who turned the small colony of survivors into hell on earth. It's a brilliant book, done in English but based on excellent research and well-written. Dash has done a previous, equally good book on the Dutch seventeenth century financial investment rage of Tulipomania. Aye mylady, stark madness lies but barely hidden beneath a Dutchman's burgher veneer...