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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Andre Resendez
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Description for A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Paperback. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. Cabeza de Vaca ultimately wrote an extraordinary chronicle of his journey. This work conjoins the facts recounted by Cabeza with the author's own research in the history and culture of 16th century North America to describe this epic journey. Num Pages: 336 pages, P. BIC Classification: RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340.
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the three hundred men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived,three Spaniards and an African slave. This tiny band endured a horrific march through Florida, a harrowing raft passage across the Louisiana coast, and years of enslavement in the American Southwest. They journeyed for ... Read more
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the three hundred men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived,three Spaniards and an African slave. This tiny band endured a horrific march through Florida, a harrowing raft passage across the Louisiana coast, and years of enslavement in the American Southwest. They journeyed for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465068418
SKU
V9780465068418
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About Andre Resendez
Andrés Reséndez is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and has written numerous books and articles on such subjects as the history of Mexico and the American Southwest. He lives in Davis, California, with his family.
Reviews for A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
"(Andres Resendez's) indefatigable scholarship, knowledge of the context and craftsmanlike storytelling provide a model account: concise, solid, moving." TLS "Andres Resendez recreates this epic crossing in painstaking detail... Resendez tells this gripping story with zeal... It is impossible not to be swept along by his enthusiasm." FT "Resendez's brisk historical narrative cries out for novelisation." Times"