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The account Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación

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

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  • "Naufragios"@es
  • "Naufragios"
  • "Relación"
  • "Historia general y natural de las Indias"
  • "Cabeza de Baca's adventures in the unknown interior of America"@en

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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 N&uacute&ntildeez 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."@en
  • "Presents an account of the trouble-plagued expedition that led Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca from Santo Domingo to Florida to Texas to Mexico at the end of the sixteenth century."
  • "A new and improved translation of Spanish explorer Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle of his journey across a large portion of what is now the United States."
  • "Jeté par la tempête en 1527 sur la côte nord du golfe du Mexique, bientôt réduit en esclavage, devenu trafiquant, thaumaturge, puis défenseur de ces Indiens que ses compatriotes opprimaient, Cabeza de Vaca poursuivit son immense voyage jusqu'au sud-ouest des Etats-Unis."
  • ""This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527-36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narváez 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 landscape. This Norton Critical Edition is based on David Frye's new translation. It is accompanied by Ilan Stavan's introduction, the translator's preface, the editor's detailed explanatory annotations, and a map tracing Cabeza de Vaca's journey from Florida to California. "Alternative Narratives and Sequels" enriches the reader's understanding of and appreciation for Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle, which can be read both as historical record and as fiction (Cabeza de Vaca having written his account years after the events took place). ."
  • ""This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527-36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narváez 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 landscape. This Norton Critical Edition is based on David Frye's new translation. It is accompanied by Ilan Stavan's introduction, the translator's preface, the editor's detailed explanatory annotations, and a map tracing Cabeza de Vaca's journey from Florida to California. "Alternative Narratives and Sequels" enriches the reader's understanding of and appreciation for Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle, which can be read both as historical record and as fiction (Cabeza de Vaca having written his account years after the events took place). Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdéz's General and Natural History of the Indies (1535) provides a different account of the same journey, while sequels can be found in a 1539 letter from the Viceroy of New Spain to the Emperor and in Fray Marcos de Niza's Relación on the Discovery of the Kingdom of Cibola (1539). The Spanish explorers, soldiers, and missionaries of the period saw the New World as a place of enchantment, riches, and opportunity. This spirit is captured in "Contexts" with documents including a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus to a potential benefactor of his future travels; Hernán Cortés's 1520 letter from Mexico; and an excerpt from Fray Bartolomé's Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542). A selection from Miguel León Portilla's Broken Spears provides readers with the viewpoint of the vanquished. "Criticism" includes five major assessments of Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition spanning eighty years. Contributors include Morris Bishop, Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz, Paul Schneider, Andrés Reséndez, and Beatriz Rivera-Barnes."--Publisher's website."
  • "The epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca, a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century."

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Schiffbrüche die unglücksfahrt der Narvaez-Expedition nach der südküste Nordamerikas in den jahren 1528 bis 1536"
  • "The account Alvar Núñez de Cabeza de Vaca's relación"
  • "La relación, o, Naufragios"
  • "Relation de voyage : [1527-1537]"
  • "Relación y comentarios <engl.&gt"
  • "Relation de voyage : 1527 - 1537"
  • "Relation de voyage 1527-1537"
  • "Schiffbrüche : Die Unglücksfahrt der Narvaez-Expedition nach der Südküste Nordamerikas in den Jahren 1528 bis 1536"
  • "The account Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación"@en
  • "Chronicle of the Narváez expedition"
  • "Chronicle of the Narváez expedition"@en
  • "Chronicle of the narvaez expedition"
  • "Chronicle of the narvaez expedition"@en
  • "Relation de voyage (1527-1537)"
  • "La relación o naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca"
  • "La relación o Naufragios"
  • "The account : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion"
  • "La relacion, o, Naufragios"
  • "Relation de voyage, 1527-1537"
  • "Relation de voyage : 1527-1537"
  • "La relación y comentarios"@es
  • "Historia en español de las Indias del Nuovo Mondo"
  • "Chronicle of the Narvaez expedition"
  • "Brodolomi"
  • "La "Relación" o "Naufragios" de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca"@es
  • "The account : Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación"
  • "Schiffbrüche. Die Unglücksfahrt der Narvaez-Expedition nach der Südküste Nordamerikas in den Jahren 1528 bis 1536. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von... Franz Termer"
  • "The account Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación"
  • "Chronicle of the Narváez expedition : a new translation, contexts, criticism"
  • "Chronicle of the Narváez expedition : a new translation : contexts, criticism"
  • "Schiffbrüche; die unglücksfahrt der Narvaez-Expedition nach der südküste Nordamerikas in den jahren 1528 bis 1536"
  • "La relación o naufragios"
  • "The shipwrecked men"
  • "The shipwrecked men"@en
  • "Adventures in the unknown interior of America"
  • "Adventures in the unknown interior of America"@en
  • "The account Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's "Relación""
  • "The narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca"
  • "The narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca"@en
  • "Relation de voyage"
  • "The Narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. [Translated by T. Buckingham Smith. Edited, with an introduction, by F.W. Hodge.]"@en

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