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Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2002
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
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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 Núñez 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.
With an introduction by Ilan Stavans.
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- Title Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)
- Author Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-06-25
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # SKU0614231
- ISBN 9780142437070 / 0142437077
- Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.14 x 0.42 in (19.71 x 13.06 x 1.07 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Library of Congress subjects America, Explorers - America
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001058315
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.16
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