Author: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (16th cent)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
Author: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (16th cent)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
Author: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VacaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780722201930
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536;
Author: Alvar 16th Cent Núñez Cabeza de VacaPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013668708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536
Author: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VacaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
Author: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de VacaPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803278330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this English-language edition, reproduced from their award-winning three-volume set, Adorno and Pautz supplement the engrossing account with a general introduction that orients the reader to Cabeza de Vaca's world. They also provide explanatory notes, which resolve many of the narrative's most perplexing questions. This highly readable translation fires the imagination and illuminates the enduring appeal of Cabeza de Vaca's experience for a modern audience.
The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific 1528-1536
Author: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VacaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Author: Robin VarnumPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147369
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North American ordeal. Robin Varnum’s biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the explorer’s life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story. During Cabeza de Vaca’s peregrinations through the American Southwest, he lived among and interacted with various Indian groups. When he and his non-Indian companions finally reconnected with Spaniards in northern Mexico, he was horrified to learn that his compatriots were enslaving Indians there. His Relación (1542) advocated using kindness and fairness rather than force in dealing with the native people of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca went on to serve as governor of Spain’s province of Río de La Plata in South America (roughly modern Paraguay). As a loyal subject of the king of Spain, he supported the colonialist enterprise and believed in Christianizing the Indians, but he always championed the rights of native peoples. In Río de La Plata he tried to keep his men from robbing the Indians, enslaving them, or exploiting them sexually—policies that caused grumbling among the troops. When Cabeza de Vaca’s men mutinied, he was sent back to Spain in chains to stand trial before the Royal Council of the Indies. Drawing on the conquistador’s own reports and on other sixteenth-century documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnum’s lively narrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation. As one of the few Spaniards of his era to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents, Cabeza de Vaca is recognized today above all for his more humane attitude toward and interactions with the Indian peoples of North America, Mexico, and South America.
The Power Within Us
Author: Haniel LongPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A retelling of one of the most heroic and soul-stirring adventures in the history of America. Four centuries ago a shipwrecked sailor, Cabeza de Vaca, reported to his king on the dangers and hardships which he and his companions faced in the trek from Florida to the Pacific. It was a story of disaster in Spanish colonial history; yet in the world of the individual it was a story of triumph. The weather-beaten explorer, lost in a thorny land among copper-colored savages and facing a blank future, discovered religion to be a reality of which he had never dreamt. He helped when he had no means of helping. He gave when he had nothing to give. His plight was hopeless but he set in motion a train of thought and action which saved him. Cabeza de Vaca's mystical feeling about the increase in life in a man in danger, from effort, from taking thought of his fellows, lies between the lines of his guarded report for the royal ear.--Jacket flap
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