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Castaways : the narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca /
Castaways (or Naufragios) is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-1536). It is also an enthralling story of adventure and survival against unimaginable odds. Its author, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a fortune-seeking sixteenth-century Spanish nobleman, was...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1993]
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| Colección: | Latin American literature and culture (Berkeley, Calif.) ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Which recounts when the fleet sailed, and the officers and men who went in it
- How the governor arrived at the port of Jagua and brought a pilot with him
- How we reached Florida
- How we marched inland
- How the governor left the ships
- How we reached Apalachee
- Of the manner of the land
- How we departed from Aute
- How we departed from the Bay of Horses
- Of the fight we had with the Indians
- Of what befell Lope de Oviedo with some Indians
- How the Indians brought us food
- How we had news of other Christians
- How four Christians departed
- What befell us in the Isle of Ill Fortune
- How the Christians departed from the Isle of Ill Fortune
- How the Indians came and brought Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico
- Of the report given to Figueroa by Esquivel
- How the Indians separated us
- How we escaped
- How we cured some sufferers there
- How they brought us more sick folk next day
- How we departed after eating the dogs
- Of the customs of the Indians of that land
- Of the Indians' readiness to use arms
- Of the tribes and their languages
- How we moved and were well received
- Of another new custom
- How some Indians robbed the others
- How the custom of receiving us changed
- How we followed the maize road
- How they gave us hearts of deer
- How we saw traces of Christians
- How I sent for the Christians
- How the mayor received us well on the night we arrived
- How we caused churches to be built in that land
- Of what befell when I decided to return
- What befell the others who went to the Indies
- Appendix A : Note on the text
- Appendix B : The American cultures described in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios.