Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

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Author: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Editor: Harold Augenbraum
Introduction: Ilan Stavans
Translator: Fanny Bandelier
Edition: Paperback
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-25
ISBN: 0142437077
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Book Review: Impressive story about exploration and survival
Summary: 5 Stars

I didn't know anything about this real story until I watched BBC Conquistadors. When I learned about Cabeza de Vaca, I was eager to read the account of his years lost, wandering in the south part of North America for 9 long years until he found some "Christians" in the northwest part of Mexico. Although the book is short and simple, the information provided is invaluable, especially with the descriptions of the Indians in this region, its customs and way of living.
One thing that called my attention was all the hardships he had to endure during his long journey, going naked and feeding mostly of fruits and roots, proving in this case that he was a survivor by nature since others were not that lucky in the same precarious environment. And yes, what a strange name.
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Summary of Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar N?ñez 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.

With an introduction by Ilan Stavans.

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