by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca · Dastin Export S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449202049
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Account of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca about his experience as one of the only four survivors of the expedition to Florida, commanded by Pánfilo de Narváez in 1527. The book tells the calamities they suffered during their journey, including the climatological inclemencies, the hunger and the adaptation to the aboriginal life. After crossing the south of North America on foot, Cabeza de Vaca returned to Mexico and then to Spain in 1536. Considered a capital work in the Hispano-American literature of the 16th century, it stands out for its historical and ethnographic value, being the first book that deals with the south of North America.
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.
