Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition tells the unforgettable story of a sixteenth-century soldier turned explorer who, along with three other survivors of a shipwreck, makes his way across an unknown geographic and cultural landscape. This Norton Critical Edition is based on David Frye's new translation. It is accompanied by Ilan Stavan's introduction, the translator's preface, the editor's detailed explanatory annotations, and a map tracing Cabeza de Vaca's journey from Florida to California. "Alternative Narratives and Sequels" enriches the reader's understanding of and appreciation for Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle, which can be read both as historical record and as fiction (Cabeza de Vaca having written his account years after the events took place). Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdez's General and Natural History of the Indies (1535) provides a different account of the same journey, while sequels can be found in a 1539 letter from the Viceroy of New Spain to the Emperor and in Fray Marcos de Niza's Relacion on the Discovery of the Kingdom of Cibola (1539). The Spanish explorers, soldiers, and missionaries of the period saw the New World as a place of enchantment, riches, and opportunity. This spirit is captured in "Contexts" with documents including a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus to a potential benefactor of his future travels; Hernan Cortes's 1520 letter from Mexico; and an excerpt from Fray Bartolome's Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542). A selection from Miguel Leon Portilla's Broken Spears provides readers with the viewpoint of the vanquished. "Criticism" includes five major assessments of Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition spanning eighty years. Contributors include Morris Bishop, Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz, Paul Schneider, Andres Resendez, and Beatriz Rivera-Barnes. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are also included.

This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this English-language edition, reproduced from their award-winning three-volume set, Adorno and Pautz supplement the engrossing account with a general introduction that orients the reader to Cabeza de Vaca's world. They also provide explanatory notes, which resolve many of the narrative's most perplexing questions. This highly readable translation fires the imagination and illuminates the enduring appeal of Cabeza de Vaca's experience for a modern audience. Purchase the audio edition.

Title: Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca: translated from the Spanish.Author: Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, AlvarPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03218900CollectionID: CTRG00-B337PublicationDate: 18710101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: A translation of the first edition, published at Zamora in 1542, under title: "Le relacion que dio Aluar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca de lo acaescido enlas Indias enla armada donde yua por gouernador Paphilo de Narbaez, desde el ano de veynte y siete hasta el ano d treynta y seys ... ." The present edition is a revision of B. Smith's translation privately printed at Washington in 1851. The appendix includes translations of various Spanish documents relating to the expedition of Narvaez and its historian. "Alva sic] Nunez Cabeca de Vaca by T.W. Field]" p. 233-354. Memoir of Thomas Buckingham Smith by J.G. Shea]" p. 255]-263. Includes index.Collation: x, 11]-300 p., 2] leaves of plates: ports.; 28 cm

In 1526 Carlos I of Spain granted Panfilo de Narvaez a license to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. Panfilo de Narvaez set sail in 1527 to conquer and settle present day Florida. Setting out with a crew of approximately 600 members ultimately only four members would survive the ill-fated expedition. The journey would take these four survivors from Spain to Hispaniola and Cuba and then onto Florida. Sailing through a hurricane and other storms the expedition would finally land near Tampa Bay. Suffering from Indian attacks and the effects of poor food and disease the crew, of which there was now only eighty, decided to sail from Florida to Mexico. In 1536, the four survivors-Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andres Dorantes de Carranza, and his enslaved Moor Estevanico-finally managed to rejoin Spanish countrymen in present-day Mexico City. Upon returning to Spain Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca would receive considerable notoriety for his published account of the ordeal.

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The odyssey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is an extraordinary testament to the human spirit. An unprecedented decade-long death-defying journey through hostile terrain and even more hostile Native tribes make this one of the best adventure stories of ALL-TIME. Out of an initial 300 soldier expedition, only 4 men returned alive. One of them told this narrative. His name was Cabeza de Vaca.

Of the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover and conquer the wilderness of North America, only four returned--after covering about 6,000 miles in the course of eight harrowing years. Cabeza de Vaca's incredible account of his 1528-1536 expedition of what is now the southern and southwestern United States and northern Mexico is unparalleled in the history of exploration. The first European to see and report sightings of the buffalo and the Mississippi River, he presents a narrative that crackles with excitement and suspense, from interactions with friendly and hostile Indians and observations on their culture, to passionate descriptions of the pristine beauty of the American wilderness. Unabridged republication of"

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Naufragios describe una de las mas grandes aventuras que un humano haya vivido alguna vez. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca fue un explorador espanol nacido en Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz) hacia 1490. Pocas vidas han sido tan ricas en aventuras como la de este hombre. En 1527 fue miembro de una expedicion integrada por 300 hombres y capitaneada por Panfilo de Narvaez. En 1528 llegaron a la bahia de Tampa, y de alli se dirigieron por tierra hacia Mexico. Despues de seis anos de cautiverio, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca y otros tres expedicionarios lograron huir de sus captores en 1535, y recorrieron el sudoeste estadounidense y norte de Mexico hasta llegar a un poblado a orillas del rio Sinaloa. A su regreso a Espana en 1537, la corona lo nombro Gobernador del Virreinato del Rio de la Plata. Entre 1541 y 1542 estuvo al frente de una expedicion del Brasil, y descubrio las Cataratas del Iguazu. En 1544 volvio a Espana bajo arresto por oponerse al uso de tanta barbarie contra los indios, alli lo desterraron al Africa hasta 1556, cuando obtuvo el perdon por parte del rey Felipe II, quien lo nombro presidente del tribunal supremo de Sevilla, donde se radico en un monasterio sevillano. Fallecio en Sevilla hacia 1560. Naufragios cuenta su primera aventura en America del Norte.

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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 Nunez 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 Hernan Cortes.
In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples along the way, learning their languages and practices and serving them as a slave and later as a physician. When after eight years he finally reached the West, he was not recognized by his compatriots.
In his writing Cabeza de Vaca displays great interest in the cultures of the native peoples he encountered on his odyssey. As he forged intimate bonds with some of them, sharing their brutal living conditions and curing their sick, he found himself on a voyage of self-discovery that was to make his reunion with his fellow Spaniards less joyful than expected.
Cabeza de Vaca's gripping narrative is a trove of ethnographic information, with descriptions and interpretations of native cultures that make it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. Frances M. Lopez-Morillas's translation beautifully captures the sixteenth-century original. Based as it is on Enrique Pupo-Walker's definitive critical edition, it promises to become the authoritative English translation.