Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
"This true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day...
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This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Florida through Louisiana and Texas into California. In thirty-eight brief chapters, Cabeza de Vaca describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across an unknown land. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. With an introduction by Ilan Stavans.
Introduction by Ilan Stavans; Revised and Annotated Translation by Harold Augenbraum\ Introduction Suggested Further Reading Chronology Illustrations: Facsimile of the Title Page of the 1542 Edition; The Route of Cabeza de Vaca A Note on the Text Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Prologue Chapter One: When the Fleet Left Spain and the Men Who Went with It Chapter Two: How the Governor Came to Xagua and Brought a Pilot with Him Chapter Three: How We Arrived in Florida Chapter Four: How We Went to the Interior Chapter Five: How the Governor Left the Ships Chapter Six: How We Got to Apalache Chapter Seven: The Lay of the Land Chapter Eight: How We Left Aute Chapter Nine: How We Left the Bay of Horses Chapter Ten: On the Skirmish We Had with the Indians Chapter Eleven: What Happened to Lope de Oviedo with Some Indians Chapter Twelve: How the Indians Brought Us Food Chapter Thirteen: How We Learned About Other Christians Chapter Fourteen: How Four Christians Departed Chapter Fifteen: What Happened to Us on the Isle of Misfortune Chapter Sixteen: How the Christians Left the Island Chapter Seventeen: How the Indians Arrived with Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estavanico Chapter Eighteen: Esquiviel's Account, Related by Figueroa Chapter Nineteen: How the Indians Separated Us Chapter Twenty: How We Fled Chapter Twenty-One: How We Cured Several Sick People Chapter Twenty-Two: How the Following Day They Brought Other Sick People Chapter Twenty-Three: How We Departed After Eating the Dogs Chapter Twenty-Four: The Customs of the Indians of That Land Chapter Twenty-Five: How Ready the Indians Are with Weapons Chapter Twenty-Six: On Nations and Languages Chapter Twenty-Seven: How We Moved and Were Received Chapter Twenty-Eight: On Another New Custom Chapter Twenty-Nine: How They Steal from One Another Chapter Thirty: How the Manner of Reception Changed Chapter Thirty-One: How We Followed the Corn Trail Chapter Thirty-Two: How They Gave Us Hearts of Deer Chapter Thirty-Three: How We Saw Traces of Christians Chapter Thirty-Four: How I Sent for the Christians Chapter Thirty-Five: How Well the Chief Magistrate Received Us on the Night of Our Arrival Chapter Thirty-Six: How We Had Churches Built in That Land Chapter Thirty-Seven: What Occurred When I Wished to Return Chapter Thirty-Eight: What Happened to the Others Who Went to the Indies\ Colophon Notes
