Format:
1 online resource (266 pages)
ISBN:
9780826350657
Content:
This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow's new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time.
Content:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- 1: A Word About the Commentaries of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca -- 2: We Leave the Island of Cape Verde -- 3: The Governor and His Fleet Arrive at Santa Catalina, in Brazil, Where the Company Disembarks -- 4: Nine Christians Come to the Island -- 5: The Governor Makes Haste on His Journey -- 6: The Governor and His People Begin Their First Ventures into the Interior -- 7: What the Governor and His People Went By Along the Road, and What Sort of Country It Is -- 8: Hardships Along the Way for the Governor and His People, and the Kinds of Pines and Pine Cones in That Land -- 9: The Explorers Starve, but Save Themselves with Worms, Which They Get from Some Canes -- 10: The Indians Are Afraid of Horses -- 11: The Governor Travels by Canoe on the Río de Iguaza, and the Men Carry their Canoes on Their Shoulders for a League to Bypass a Bad Stretch of the River at Some Rapids -- 12: They Make Rafts to Carry the Sick -- 13: The Governor Arrives at the City of Asunción, Where He Finds the Christian Spaniards He Had Come to Help -- 14: The Spaniards Who had Fallen Ill on the Río de Piqueri Arrive in the City of Asunción -- 15: The Governor Sends Help to the People Who Had Gone in His Flagship to Buenos Aires to Assist in the Resettlement of That Port -- 16: They Kill the Enemies They Capture, and Then Eat Them -- 17: The Governor Concludes a Peace with the Agaces Tribe -- 18: The Settlers Complain About Your Majesty's Officials to the Governor -- 19: They Complain About the Guaycuru Indians to the Governor -- 20: The Governor Asks for More Details About the Complaint -- 21: The Governor and His People Cross the River, and Two Christians Drown -- 22: Spies Go Out by Order of the Governor to Follow the Guaycuru Indians.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826350633
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780826350633
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1119038
Author information:
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvaro 1507-1559
