UID:
edocfu_9959243772202883
Format:
1 online resource (xxx, 158 p. )
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ill. ;
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-520-91028-1
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0-585-13002-7
Series Statement:
Latin American Literature and Culture Series ; Volume 10
Uniform Title:
Relación y comentarios.
Content:
This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of Castaways (Naufragios), Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the long westward journey on foot to meet up with Hernán Cortés. In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples 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. In his writing Cabeza de Vaca displays great interest in the cultures of the native peoples he encountered on his odyssey. 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 gripping narrative is a trove of ethnographic information, with descriptions and interpretations of native cultures that make it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. Frances M. López-Morillas's translation beautifully captures the sixteenth-century original. Based as it is on Enrique Pupo-Walker's definitive critical edition, it promises to become the authoritative English translation.
Note:
Translation of: Relación y comentarios.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Editor's Foreword --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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PROLOGUE. To His Sacred, Caesarean, Catholic Majesty --
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CHAPTER I. Which Recounts When the Fleet Sailed, and the Officers and Men Who Went in It --
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CHAPTER II. How the Governor Arrived at the Port of Jagua and Brought a Pilot with Him --
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CHAPTER III. How We Reached Florida --
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CHAPTER IV. How We Marched Inland --
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CHAPTER V. How the Governor Left the Ships --
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CHAPTER VI. How We Reached Apalachee --
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CHAPTER VII. Of the Manner of the Land --
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CHAPTER VIII. How We Departed from Aute --
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CHAPTER IX. How We Departed from the Bay of Horses --
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CHAPTER X. Of the Fight We Had with the Indians --
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CHAPTER XI. Of What Befell Lope de Oviedo with Some Indians --
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CHAPTER XII. How the Indians Brought Us Food --
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CHAPTER XIII. How We Had News of Other Christians --
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CHAPTER XIV. How Four Christians Departed --
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CHAPTER XV. What Befell Us in the Isle of Ill Fortune --
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CHAPTER XVI. How the Christians Departed from the Isle of Ill Fortune --
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CHAPTER XVII. How the Indians Came and Brought Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico --
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CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Report Given to Figueroa by Esquivel --
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CHAPTER XIX. How the Indians Separated Us --
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CHAPTER XX. How We Escaped --
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CHAPTER XXI. How We Cured Some Sufferers There --
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CHAPTER XXII. How They Brought Us More Sick Folk Next Day --
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CHAPTER XXIII. How We Departed after Eating the Dogs --
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CHAPTER XXIV. Of the Customs of the Indians of That Land --
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CHAPTER XXV. Of the Indians' Readiness to Use Arms --
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CHAPTER XXVI. Of the Tribes and Their Languages --
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CHAPTER XXVII. How We Moved and Were Well Received --
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CHAPTER XXVIII. Of Another New Custom --
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CHAPTER XXIX. How Some Indians Robbed the Others --
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CHAPTER XXX. How the Custom of Receiving Us Changed --
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CHAPTER XXXI. How We Followed the Maize Road --
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CHAPTER XXXII. How They Gave Us Hearts of Deer --
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CHAPTER XXXIII. How We Saw Traces of Christians --
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CHAPTER XXXIV. How I Sent for the Christians --
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CHAPTER XXXV. How the Mayor Received Us Well on the Night We Arrived --
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CHAPTER XXXVI. How We Caused Churches to Be Built in That Land --
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CHAPTER XXXVII. Of What Befell When I Decided to Return --
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CHAPTER XXXVIII. What Befell the Others Who Went to the Indies --
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APPENDIX A. Note on the Text --
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APPENDIX B. The American Cultures Described in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios --
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Notes --
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Select Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-07063-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520910287
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