The Account Of Cabeza De Vaca
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The Narrative Of Cabeza De Vaca
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Author : Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-06-18
The Narrative Of Cabeza De Vaca written by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-18 with History categories.
This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this English-language edition, reproduced from their award-winning three-volume set, Adorno and Pautz supplement the engrossing account with a general introduction that orients the reader to Cabeza de Vaca's world. They also provide explanatory notes, which resolve many of the narrative's most perplexing questions. This highly readable translation fires the imagination and illuminates the enduring appeal of Cabeza de Vaca's experience for a modern audience.
The Account Of Cabeza De Vaca
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Author : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-02
The Account Of Cabeza De Vaca written by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-02 with History categories.
This book combines a new English translation of La Relacion ("The Account") by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca with the translator's analysis and commentary. La Relacion is Cabeza de Vaca's first-hand account of the Narvaez Expedition - Spain's failed attempt to colonize Florida in 1528. It tells the story of the first non-indigenous people to visit a large part of the present-day United States and Mexico and documents their first contacts with a number of pre-Columbian native American tribes. It describes the series of disasters and calamities that reduced Narvaez's army of 300 men down to four, including skirmishes with naked, bow-wielding natives, getting lost at sea, becoming shipwrecked, and being captured and forced to live as slaves of people who tortured them for their own amusement. It further describes how, after the four survivors were at their lowest, with nothing but their faith in God to keep them going, their fortunes turned, enabling them to emerge triumphantly from the wilderness, after eight years of being lost, surrounded by hundreds of adoring natives who believed them to be Children of the Sun. The heart of this book is David Carson's accurate, literal translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account. Not content with the typical approach of loosely paraphrasing the original text so as to get the basic idea across, Carson painstakingly chooses each English word so as to best replicate the author's words and voice. The result is the closest thing there is to reading La Relacion in Spanish. Next, Carson takes on the roles of editor, analyst, and commentator. Through his hundreds of annotations to the text, Carson tracks the Narvaez Expedition members' movements across Florida, the Gulf coast, Texas, and northern Mexico to an impressive level of detail and with insights that should settle several long-standing controversies about where the castaways went, and when they were there. He then goes even deeper, analyzing the castaways' motives in light of the culture of Spanish exploration in the Age of Discovery and pointing out the author's occasional contradictions and exaggerations. To bolster his analysis, Carson brings in relevant material from other 16th-century records, including Gonzalo de Oviedo's paraphrased version of the "Joint Report," which Cabeza de Vaca also co-authored. All of Carson's annotations are set off as footnotes, meaning one can make full use of them if desired, or simply skip them and read only the basic translation. Maps, a chronology, a glossary, a prologue, and an epilogue complete the book. If you have not read Cabeza de Vaca before, prepare for a fascinating story that will show you a side of American history you never knew about. If you consider yourself a well-read student of the Narvaez Expedition, this edition of "The Account" will surely become your ultimate reference book on the subject.
The Account Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca S Relaci N
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Author : Alvar Nœ–ez Cabeza de Vaca
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1993-02-01
The Account Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca S Relaci N written by Alvar Nœ–ez Cabeza de Vaca and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Account: çlvar Nœ–ez Cabeza de VacaÕs Relaci—n, edited and translated by JosŽ Fern‡ndez and Martin Favata, is a new and improved translation of Spanish explorer çlvar Nœ–ez Cabeza de VacaÕs chronicle of his amazing journey across a large portion of what is now the United States. The Account is one of the earliest chronicles of Spanish penetration into North America. His journey (1528-1536) of hardship and misfortune is one of the most remarkable in the history of the New World and contains many first descriptions of the lands and their inhabitants. The Account, first published in Zamora, Spain, in 1542, is of inestimable value for students of history and literature, ethnographers, anthropologists and the general reader. It is also one of the most remarkable literary documents for the style, clarity and sense of drama in the narratorÕs extraordinary effort to comprehend a totally new and marvelous world.
The Journey And Ordeal Of Cabeza De Vaca
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Author : Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2003-01-01
The Journey And Ordeal Of Cabeza De Vaca written by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Travel categories.
Of the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover and conquer the wilderness of North America, only four returned -- after covering about 6,000 miles in the course of eight harrowing years. Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1528-1536 expedition crackles with excitement and suspense, relating the survivors' journey across treacherous territory, rhapsodizing over the pristine beauty of the American wilderness, and offering firsthand information on American Indian life before European influence. Professor Cyclone Covey's outstanding translation represents the definitive edition of Cabeza de Vaca's odyssey, incorporating all of the latest related historic research. --Publisher.
Cabeza De Vaca S Adventures In The Unknown Interior Of America
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Author : Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 1983
Cabeza De Vaca S Adventures In The Unknown Interior Of America written by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
Relates Cabeza de Vaca's travels across North America after coming to the New World in 1527.
Lvar N Ez Cabeza De Vaca
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Author : Robin Varnum
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Lvar N Ez Cabeza De Vaca written by Robin Varnum and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North American ordeal. Robin Varnum’s biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the explorer’s life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story. During Cabeza de Vaca’s peregrinations through the American Southwest, he lived among and interacted with various Indian groups. When he and his non-Indian companions finally reconnected with Spaniards in northern Mexico, he was horrified to learn that his compatriots were enslaving Indians there. His Relación (1542) advocated using kindness and fairness rather than force in dealing with the native people of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca went on to serve as governor of Spain’s province of Río de La Plata in South America (roughly modern Paraguay). As a loyal subject of the king of Spain, he supported the colonialist enterprise and believed in Christianizing the Indians, but he always championed the rights of native peoples. In Río de La Plata he tried to keep his men from robbing the Indians, enslaving them, or exploiting them sexually—policies that caused grumbling among the troops. When Cabeza de Vaca’s men mutinied, he was sent back to Spain in chains to stand trial before the Royal Council of the Indies. Drawing on the conquistador’s own reports and on other sixteenth-century documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnum’s lively narrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation. As one of the few Spaniards of his era to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents, Cabeza de Vaca is recognized today above all for his more humane attitude toward and interactions with the Indian peoples of North America, Mexico, and South America.
The Journey Of Alvar N Ez Cabeza De Vaca And His Companions From Florida To The Pacific 1528 1536
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Author : Alvar 16th Cent Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
The Journey Of Alvar N Ez Cabeza De Vaca And His Companions From Florida To The Pacific 1528 1536 written by Alvar 16th Cent Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
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Cabeza De Vaca
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Author : Cabeza Vaca
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-01-11
Cabeza De Vaca written by Cabeza Vaca and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-11 with categories.
Cabeza de Vaca is the account of his experiences with the Narvaez expedition and after being wrecked on Galveston Island in November 1528. Cabeza de Vaca and his last three men struggled to survive.They wandered along the Texas coast as prisoners of the Han and Capoque American Indians for two years, while Cabeza de Vaca observed the people, picking up their ways of life and customs.They traveled through the American Southwest and ultimately reached Mexico City, nearly eight years after being wrecked on the island.In 1537, Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain, where he wrote his narratives of the Narvaez expedition. These narratives were collected and published in 1542 in Spain. They are now known as The Relation of �lvar N��ez Cabeza de Vaca. The narrative of Cabeza de Vaca is the "first European book devoted completely to North America." His detailed account describes the lives of numerous tribes of American Indians of the time. Cabeza de Vaca showed compassion and respect for native peoples, which, together with the great detail he recorded, distinguishes his narrative from others of the period.Cabeza de Vaca reported on the customs and ways of American Indian life, aware of his status as an early European explorer. He spent eight years with various peoples, including the Capoque, Han, Avavare, and Arbadao. He describes details of the culture of the Malhado people, the Capoque, and Han American Indians, such as their treatment of offspring, their wedding rites, and their main sources of food.
Lvar N Ez Cabeza De Vaca
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Author : Sandra Colmenares
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2019-07-15
Lvar N Ez Cabeza De Vaca written by Sandra Colmenares and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The story of Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca brims with his adventures and misadventures throughout the North American Southwest. As of the sixteenth century, no European had journeyed over such a large extension of territory, from the Florida Peninsula to northern Mexico, and survived. This lively and informative volume goes on to examine his eight years of wandering in this unknown land, during which he learned natural medicine from the American natives and became a curandero, learned their languages, and served as a trader and peacemaker among different tribes. Vibrant illustrations complement and expand on this memorable, but often overlooked story.
The Power Within Us
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Author : Haniel Long
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
The Power Within Us written by Haniel Long and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with America categories.
A retelling of one of the most heroic and soul-stirring adventures in the history of America. Four centuries ago a shipwrecked sailor, Cabeza de Vaca, reported to his king on the dangers and hardships which he and his companions faced in the trek from Florida to the Pacific. It was a story of disaster in Spanish colonial history; yet in the world of the individual it was a story of triumph. The weather-beaten explorer, lost in a thorny land among copper-colored savages and facing a blank future, discovered religion to be a reality of which he had never dreamt. He helped when he had no means of helping. He gave when he had nothing to give. His plight was hopeless but he set in motion a train of thought and action which saved him. Cabeza de Vaca's mystical feeling about the increase in life in a man in danger, from effort, from taking thought of his fellows, lies between the lines of his guarded report for the royal ear.--Jacket flap