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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 Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area... read more
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On the seventeenth of June in the year fifteen hundred and twenty-seven, Governor Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda with authority and orders from Your Majesty to conquer and govern the provinces that lie between the river of Las Palmas and the tip of Florida, which are on the mainland.
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- Alvar Nu?n?ez Cabeza de Vaca (Author)
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