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Article: The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca.(Book Review)
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- Early American Literature
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- March 22, 2004
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The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca.
ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by ROLENA ADORNO and PATRICK CHARLES PAUTZ. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. vii + 204 pp.
When the expedition of the Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez set out from Spain on 17 June 1527, it was with the hope that the uncharted territories of the American mainland then known as Florida would yield riches comparable to those recently won by Hernan Cortes in the conquest of New Spain to the south. No one imagined the travails to come of that, of the original group of some six hundred men and ten women, only four of those to ...