A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Автор:
Andre Resendez, 336 стр., ISBN:
0465068413
This is the gripping story of a doomed mission to North America - and the four survivors who journeyed for a decade across the new world just discovered by Christopher Columbus.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. Delayed by a hurricane and then knocked off course by a colossal mistake of navigation, the mission was doomed to failure when it leaders decided to separate the men from their ships on the Florida coast. The expedition quickly turned into a harrowing struggle for survival that included a long march through Florida, a dangerous raft passage, and, for those few who lived, a decade-long struggle to cheat death and make their way home.Of the 300 men who set out to colonize Florida in 1528, only four would survive - Cabeza, two other Spaniards and an African slave. All told, the four spent almost ten years living alternately as conquistadors,...
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