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Wreckers : disaster in the age of discovery / Simon Park

by Simon Park

This maritime history examines exploration from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries through accounts of shipwrecks, failures, and indigenous resistance. It challenges narratives of imperial dominance by highlighting the precarious, improvised nature of European expansion.

Accession 28290 ISBN 9780241741320 Publisher Viking Penguin
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