Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

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Synopsis
This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Florida through Louisiana and Texas into California. In thirty-eight brief chapters, Cabeza de Vaca describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across an unknown land. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. .
Copyright:
1869

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781440630545
Related ISBNs:
9780142437070
Publisher:
Penguin Group US
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Fanny Bandelier, Harold Augenbraun, Ilan Stavans, Alvar Nunez De Vaca
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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