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The Account of Cabeza de Vaca: A Literal Translation with Analysis and Commentary

The Account of Cabeza de Vaca: A Literal Translation with Analysis and Commentary

Carson, David
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez

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ISBN10: 1732687412
ISBN13: 9781732687417
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Published: Nov 2 2018
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book combines a new English translation of La Relacion (The Account) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca with the translator's analysis and commentary.

La Relacion is Cabeza de Vaca's first-hand account of the Narvaez Expedition - Spain's failed attempt to colonize Florida in 1528. It tells the story of the first non-indigenous people to visit a large part of the present-day United States and Mexico and documents their first contacts with a number of pre-Columbian native American tribes. It describes the series of disasters and calamities that reduced Narvaez's army of 300 men down to four, including skirmishes with naked, bow-wielding natives, getting lost at sea, becoming shipwrecked, and being captured and forced to live as slaves of people who tortured them for their own amusement. It further describes how, after the four survivors were at their lowest, with nothing but their faith in God to keep them going, their fortunes turned, enabling them to emerge triumphantly from the wilderness, after eight years of being lost, surrounded by hundreds of adoring natives who believed them to be Children of the Sun.

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