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Of the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover North America, only four returned. Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1528-1536 expedition crackles with excitement, relating the survivors' journey across treacherous territory, rhapsodizing over the beauty of the American wilderness,... Read Full Overview

This highly readable translation fires the imagination and illuminates the enduring appeal of Cabeza de Vaca's experience for a modern audience.

This edition of lvar N ez Cabeza de Vaca's Relaci n offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's... Read Full Overview

The New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own words This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca , was a fortune-seeking Spanish... Read Full Overview

The New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own words This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar N ez Cabeza de Vaca , was a fortune-seeking Spanish... Read Full Overview

This book combines a new English translation of La Relacion ("The Account") by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca with the translator's analysis and commentary.

La Relacion is Cabeza de Vaca's first-hand account of the Narvaez Expedition - Spain's failed attempt... Read Full Overview

?lvar N??ez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488/1490 - Seville, c. 1557/1558) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the 1527 Narv?ez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the Southwest, he became a slave, trader and shaman to... Read Full Overview

?lvar N??ez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488/1490/1492 - Seville, c. 1557/1558/1559/1560) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narv?ez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest, he became a trader... Read Full Overview

Cabeza de Vaca came to the New world in 1527 as part of a Spanish expedition to conquer the region north of the Gulf of Mexico. His exploration party lost contact with their ships, set out northward on foot, and traveled, their numbers soon reduced from 300 to 4, across Florida,... Read Full Overview

Cultural Writing. A new and improved translation of the Spanish explorer's chronicle of his journey across a large portion of what is now the United States. De Vaca's journey (1528 - 1536) of hardship and misfortune is one of the most remarkable in the history of the New World... Read Full Overview

Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narv?ez Expedition tells the unforgettable story of a sixteenth-century soldier turned explorer who, along with three other survivors of a shipwreck, makes his way across an unknown geographic and cultural... Read Full Overview

?lvar N??ez Cabeza de Vaca was one of the first Europeans to explore the vast lands of America. Setting off with expedition led by P?nfilo de Narv?ez in 1527, Cabeza de Vaca was one of only four to return alive. Over an eight-year period he and his companions travelled into the... Read Full Overview

Alvar N ez Cabeza de Vaca viaj por primera vez a Am rica en 1527 con la desgraciada expedici n de Panfilo de Narv ez a la pen nsula de Florida, de la cual tard diez a os en volver tras haber protagonizado una incre ble aventura, narrada en Naufragios. No obstante las penurias... Read Full Overview

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was an explorer sent by Spain to occupy North America. His journey went awry, and he was one of the few who remained alive. He traveled throughout the Caribbean, Gulf Coast, the modern day Southwestern United States and Mexico, finally reaching Spain... Read Full Overview

In 1526 Carlos I of Spain granted P nfilo de Narv ez a license to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. P nfilo de Narv ez set sail in 1527 to conquer and settle present day Florida. Setting out with a crew of approximately 600 members ultimately only four... Read Full Overview