Foreign language books History Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition

Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition

This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition...
ISBN: 9780142437070
Author: Alvar Núnez
Page: 117
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2002
Format: Book
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Language: English
Ages: adult

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...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.

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