n??ez cabeza de vaca, alvar

The imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record of the 1527 conquistador P?nfilo de Narv?ez's expedition to claim the Gulf coast of North America for the Spanish crown and which was faced with peril, navigational errors, disease, and starvation, as well as resistance from indigenous tribes.

A biography of the Spanish conquistador who survived a failed mission to Florida to spend seven years among Indians in the American Southwest and then tried to secure humane treatment of the Indians in the lower half of the South American continent.

Describes the life of the sixteenth-century Spanish explorer who traveled from Florida to Mexico and sought justice and fair treatment for the Native Americans.

An account of the expedition that led Spanish explorer Cabaza de Vaca from Florida to Texas to Mexico, where he was the first to see possum and bison, the first to see the Mississippi River and pave the way for other explorers such as Coronado and de Soto.

Recounts the adventures of Spanish nobleman and explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, describing his disasterous expedition to the Americas in 1527 and the seven years he spent living among the Native Americans.

Discusses the life and exploration of a descendant of Spanish politicians, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who came to America as a conquistador but was captured and made a slave.