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File:Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca (IA cu31924020420489).pdf. Add languages. ... Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871, tr
These narratives were collected and published in 1542 in Spain. They are now known as The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. The narrative of Cabeza de Vaca is the “first European book devoted completely to North America.” [35] His detailed account describes the lives of numerous tribes of American Indians of the time. Cabeza de ...
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542), La Relacion (The Report); Translated as The Narrative of Cabeza De Vaca by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz. Hans Staden (1557), True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America
Rolena Adorno (born 5 November 1942) [1] [2] is an American humanities scholar, the Spanish Sterling Professor at Yale University and bestselling author. [3]Writing in 2001, and in the context of a favorable review of a "magnificent study" that she coauthored, James Axtell called her "perhaps the preeminent student of colonial Latin American literature".
Estevanico (c. 1500 –1539), also known as Mustafa Azemmouri and Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first person of African descent to explore North America. He was one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado.
Online texts of Cabeza De Vaca's Naufragios, Las Casas' Brevísima relación, Columbus' diario of 1492/93 and 1st voyage letter, Cortés' five Cartas de relaciónes, Oviedo y Valdés' Historia general y natural de las Indias. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Digitized LoC Materials
A Land So Strange, a 2007 historical narrative by Andrés Reséndez, retells the journey for a modern audience using primary sources by Cabeza de Vaca and the official report. [18] Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America , a 2018 nonfiction biography by Dennis Herrick, dispels centuries of myths and inaccuracies about the African. [ 19 ]
A 2013 paper describes Bishop's book as "a breezy narrative about Cabeza de Vaca, spiced with imaginary dialogue"; saying that it "made no attempt to advance a new route interpretation. Instead, Bishop accepted the conclusions of [Harbert] Davenport and [Joseph K.] Wells set forth some fourteen years earlier". [85]