Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire

by Josiah Blackmore

A new take on a famous collection of shipwreck narratives that places them at the center of resistance to colonialism

Shipwreck, death, and survival; terror, hunger, and salvation--these are the experiences of the passengers onboard merchant Portuguese ships sailing the high seas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. And this is the stuff of the stories committed to print by survivors upon their return to the homeland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816638500
• ISBN13: 9780816638505
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"