WreckersA gripping new history of the shipwrecks and other failed voyages at the dawn of imperialism (15 16th C) 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