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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

Reséndez, Andrés

Paperback

Adventurers & ExplorersColonial Period (1600-1775)Exploration

ISBN10: 0465068413
ISBN13: 9780465068418
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Dec 1 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, the gripping tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century.

Once you start this book, it's nearly impossible to put it down. -Washington Post

In 1527, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane and knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. In the end, only four survived: three Spaniards and an African slave.

Enduring a horrific march through Florida, a harrowing raft passage across the Louisiana coast, and years of enslavement in the American Southwest, this tiny band of castaways journeyed across an unknown land for almost ten years in search of the Pacific Ocean that would guide them home.

Now updated with a new afterword, A Land So Strange brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever.

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