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CHRONICLE OF THE NARVAEZ EXPEDITION by CABEZA DE VACA ALVAR NUNEZ
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Shipwrecked Man (Great Journeys) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
The original disaster narrative, The Shipwrecked Men by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1492-c.1560) tells how a confident, well-equipped Spanish expedition to explore the Florida mainland came utterly to grief through arrogance, storms and bad luck, leaving a handful of survivors to stagger to Mexico Cit ...Show more
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