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Author: Peter Lourie
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781590784921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1527, the conquistador Cabeza de Vaca set sail for the Spanish territory of La Florida. His aim was to explore and colonize an unknown land that stretched from present-day Florida to Texas.
Author: Albert Calvin Williams
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oscar Waldo Williams
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynn Peppas
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781477709337
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Shipwrecked in a hostile land, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca spent nine years walking across southern North America in search of rescue. In this riveting tale of miraculous survival, Cabeza de Vaca becomes one [of] the first Europeans to witness the beauty and danger of the Texas landscape"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Lawrence D Sharp
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Published: 2021-03-27
Total Pages: 222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA useful addition to leterature on the fascinating story of Cabeza de Vaca, the Robinson Crusoe of Texas With his companions, he was the first non-native to explore Texas as he went from one village to another offering his healing services and prayers. The natives also taught him to barter with seashells and cane sticks so he could be a merchant. Later, his work as a físico, along with his optimistic faith, enabled him to make his way to the corner of New Spain in northwestern Mexico. Passing from village to village he explored unknown lands, saw many people cured, made peace among enemies, and left a favorable legacy among the native people that lasted for decades.
Author: Donald E. Chipman
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0803278330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this English-language edition, reproduced from their award-winning three-volume set, Adorno and Pautz supplement the engrossing account with a general introduction that orients the reader to Cabeza de Vaca's world. They also provide explanatory notes, which resolve many of the narrative's most perplexing questions. This highly readable translation fires the imagination and illuminates the enduring appeal of Cabeza de Vaca's experience for a modern audience.
Author: Alvar Nœ–ez Cabeza de Vaca
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 1993-02-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781611920475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Account: çlvar Nœ–ez Cabeza de VacaÕs Relaci—n, edited and translated by JosŽ Fern‡ndez and Martin Favata, is a new and improved translation of Spanish explorer çlvar Nœ–ez Cabeza de VacaÕs chronicle of his amazing journey across a large portion of what is now the United States. The Account is one of the earliest chronicles of Spanish penetration into North America. His journey (1528-1536) of hardship and misfortune is one of the most remarkable in the history of the New World and contains many first descriptions of the lands and their inhabitants. The Account, first published in Zamora, Spain, in 1542, is of inestimable value for students of history and literature, ethnographers, anthropologists and the general reader. It is also one of the most remarkable literary documents for the style, clarity and sense of drama in the narratorÕs extraordinary effort to comprehend a totally new and marvelous world.
Author: Andrés Reséndez
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009-01-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780465068418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century In 1527, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: delayed by a hurricane and knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the three hundred men who had embarked, only four survived--three Spaniards and an African slave. This tiny band endured a horrific march through Florida, a harrowing raft passage across the Louisiana coast, and years of enslavement in the American Southwest. They journeyed for almost ten years in search of the Pacific Ocean that would guide them home, seeing lands, peoples, plants, and animals that no outsider had before. In this enthralling tale of four castaways wandering in an unknown land, Andrés Reséndez brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever.
