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Robin Varnum
In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years…
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca,Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Esta historia posee la veracidad de alguien que ha vivido personalmente los hechos que narra, pero tambien tiene elementos novelescos. Por eso no se puede decir que sea un relato…
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Alfred Rodriguez
Title: Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca: translated from the Spanish.
Author: Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca…
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
With the idea to match the success of Hernan Cortes, in 1957 Alvar embarked on the expedition that would later be known as the expedition of failure, where he intended…
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Of the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover and conquer the wilderness of North America, only four returned - after covering about 6,000 miles in the course of…
Sandra Ilg
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Spanische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 2,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Veranstaltung: Proseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Selbst heute hat die Faszination von den…
Offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz’s celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. This title tells the story…
This book combines a new English translation of La Relacion ( The Account ) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca with the translator’s analysis and commentary.
La Relacion is Cabeza…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Sandra Colmenares
The story of Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca brims with his adventures and misadventures throughout the North American Southwest. As of the sixteenth century, no European had journeyed…
Dr. M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
A comparative examination of Spanish- and English-language accounts of the New World.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527-36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca,Alvar Nu Ez Cabeza De Vaca
One of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century, this new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca’s adventures available to a wide English-speaking…
Buckingham 1810-1871 Smith
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Pedro Castaneda de de Najera
This true story details the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for…
A narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36).
Luis L Dominguez
Translated for the Hakluyt Society. With Notes and an Introduction, by Luis L. Dominguez This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1891.
Manuel Antonio Arango L
Proceso Historico-Social en la Literatura de los Primeros Cronistas de la Conquista de America se divide en dos partes principales: (1) los cronistas del siglo XV y XVI y (2)…
