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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the unknown interior of America by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( Book )
434 editions published between 1542 and 2011 in 9 languages and held by 2,404 libraries worldwide
Castaways (or Naufragios) is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-1536). It is also an enthralling story of adventure and survival against unimaginable odds. Its author, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a fortune-seeking sixteenth-century Spanish nobleman, was the treasurer of an expedition to claim for the Spanish Crown a vast area that includes today's Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the long journey to the West coast, where they would meet up with Hernan Cortes, on foot. They endured unspeakable hardships, some of them surviving only by eating the dead. Others, including Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples he met 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. Cabeza de Vaca displays great interest in the cultures - so alien to his own - of the native peoples he encountered on his odyssey, observing their customs and belief systems with a degree of sophistication and sensitivity unusual in the conquistador. 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 narrative is a marvelously gripping story, but it is also much more. It is a first-hand account of sixteenth-century Spanish colonization, of the encounter between the conquistador and the Native American, of the aspirations and fears of exploration. It is a trove of ethnographic information, its descriptions and interpretations of native peoples' cultures making it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. And it is a masterpiece of exploration writing, its author keenly aware of the fictive thrust that often energizes the writing of history.

Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543 : The narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca ( Book )
17 editions published between 1907 and 1990 in English and held by 1,083 libraries worldwide

Relation of Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( Book )
7 editions published between 1966 and 1980 in English and held by 939 libraries worldwide

Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543 ( Book )
9 editions published between 1907 and 2006 in English and held by 256 libraries worldwide
Contains The narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca, edited by Frederick W. Hodge. The narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto by the Gentleman of Elvas, edited by Theodore H. Lewis. The narrative of the expedition of Coronado, by Pedro de Castaneda, edited by Frederick W. Hodge.

The Conquest of the river Plate (1535-1555) ( Book )
6 editions published between 1891 and 1970 in English and held by 151 libraries worldwide

Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543 / / the narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas / ed. by Theodore H. Lewis : the narrative of the expedition of Coronado / by Pedro de Casteñeda ; ed. by Frederick W. Hodge ( Book )
1 edition published in 1959 in English and held by 143 libraries worldwide

Historiadores primitivos de Indias by Enrique de Vedia ( Book )
in Spanish and English and held by 131 libraries worldwide

The shipwrecked men by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( Book )
6 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 115 libraries worldwide

Historiadores primitivos de Indias ( Book )
5 editions published between 1923 and 1946 in Spanish and held by 114 libraries worldwide

Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( Book )
3 editions published in 1871 in English and held by 93 libraries worldwide