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WRECKERS

SIMON PARK

Número de páginas: 368

Idioma: Inglés

Formatos: Pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2

ISBN: 9780241741320

Editorial: Dk

Año de edición: 2025

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Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism revealing the violent chaotic and improvised reality of empire building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries While figures such as Christopher Columbus Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are celebrated for their maritime achievements reaching the Americas India and circumnavigating the globe focusing solely on these voyages distorts our perspective on the past Many explorers ended up as castaways clinging to the splintered timbers of their wrecked ships while those who survived often faced resistance and ridicule from indigenous communities across the globe Drawing on maritime stories from various languages and continents from Brazil and Southeast Africa to India and the Philippines Wreckers shares dramatic tales of the sea and the events on land that followed This offers an alternative timeline for the century after Columbus 1492 voyage and sheds light on the fractures and fault lines that accompanied the increasing geographical range of European ships Simon Park argues that even when Europeans arrogantly claimed their own superiority the truth was that they were often driven by a profound sense of greed and envy and their actions included numerous mishaps For example in his hunt for go

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