Naufragios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Overview

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to cross the North American continent. This remarkable book is his odyssey, first written in 1542 as an official report to the king of Spain under the title La Relacion.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160754635
Publisher:	Walrus Books Publisher
Publication date:	08/28/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish colonial forces in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La Relación ("The Relation", or in more modern terms "The Account"), which in later editions was retitled Naufragios ("Shipwrecks"). Cabeza de Vaca has been considered notable as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of American Indians that he encountered.