We Asked for Nothing: The Remarkable Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Great Explorers)

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The explorer who found out his own humanity.

In 1528, the conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca escaped a hostile reception in Florida only to be shipwrecked off the coast of Texas. For the following eight years, he lived a number of the native tribes of the Southwest even as he journeyed towards the protection of the Spanish settlements in Mexico. He and three companions survived starvation, sickness and slavery way to the generosity of native peoples along the way in which.

When Cabeza de Vaca after all reached the Spanish, he was once a changed man and led the struggle against the feudal-like exploitation of the New World populations. Stuart Waldman tells the fascinating story of two journeys: one covering 2,500 miles through unexplored territory, the opposite the transformation of a man’s heart.

Excerpts from Cabeza de Vaca’s journals make the reader’s immersion into this mystifying world complete. The gatefold map allows the reader to follow the journey even as reading.

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