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Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Paperback, 2002)

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This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Nunez 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 breif chapters, he describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across the unmapped land. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making its a powerful precursor to modern anthropology.

Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Random House Australia

ISBN-139780142437070

eBay Product ID (ePID)95483582

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameChronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

Publication Year2002

SubjectGeography & Geosciences, History

TypeTextbook

AuthorAlvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height198 mm

Item Weight136 g

Item Width130 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureAustralia

Title_AuthorAlvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

EditorHarold Augenbraun

TopicTravel Writing