by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437639222
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This book recounts the incredible misadventures of the first Spanish explorers in the southern United States and northern Mexico. Through its pages, it narrates the tenacious resistance of these men for eight years, facing hurricanes, famines, diseases, and conflicts with the natives. The story follows Cabeza de Vaca and his companions, who, after being enslaved by a tribe, embark on a real journey of more than three thousand kilometers from the coast of Texas to the Mexican Pacific, being venerated by the natives as healers and men of truth.
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is today the Southwestern United States, he became a trader, evangelist, and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536.
