Castaways: Volume 10

by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Book Overview

This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of Castaways ( Naufragios ), Alvar N ez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the long westward journey on foot to meet up with Hern n Cort...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520070631
• ISBN13: 9780520070639
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.1"