Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

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The New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own words

This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North The usa by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The writer, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, used to be a fortune-in the hunt for 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 up to date anthropology.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the most efficient works all the way through history and across genres and disciplines. Readers accept as true with the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and recent authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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