Manifest PerditionA 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 salvationthese 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. These Portuguese shipwreck