Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America - Couverture souple

Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca, Alvar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 082630656X ISBN 13 : 9780826306562

Editeur : UNM Press, 1983

Synopsis

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 Relación.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488/1490 – Seville, c. 1557/1558) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the Southwest, he became a slave, trader and shaman to various Native American tribes before rejoining Spanish forces in Mexico. After his return to Spain in 1537, Cabeza de Vaca has been considered notable as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of American Indians whom he encountered. While in Spain, he wrote his journal, first published in 1542 as La Relación (The Report), which in later editions was entitled Naufragios (Shipwrecks). In 1540 Cabeza de Vaca returned to the Western Hemisphere, appointed as adelantado of the Río de la Plata in present-day Argentina, where he was supposed to re-establish the settlement of Buenos Aires. Unsuccessful, he also came into conflict with the governor, Domingo Martínez de Irala, who arrested him in 1544 for poor administration. The former explorer was transported to Spain for trial in 1545. Although eventually acquitted, he never returned to the Americas, and died poor in Seville.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: UNM Press
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082630656X
• ISBN 13: 9780826306562
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Covey Cyclone
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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