The original disaster narrative, "The Shipwrecked Men" by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1492-c.1560) tells how a confident, well-equipped Spanish expedition to explore the Florida mainland came utterly to grief through arrogance, storms and bad luck, leaving a handful of survivors to stagger to Mexico City some years later. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1492-c.1560) was an early Spanish explorer of the New World. He led a varied and adventurous life in different parts of the Spanish Empire, fighting in both Europe and the New World and in 1541 becoming the highly unsuccessful governor of the Rio de la Plata.
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On the twenty-seventh day of the month of June 1527 Governor Pánfilo de Narváez departed from the port of San Lúcar de Barramed,1 with power and mandate from Your Majesty to conquer and govern the provinces that extend from the River of the Palms2 to the Cape of Florida, which lie on the mainland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Shipwrecked Men, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes, Isle of Misfortune, Lope de Oviedo, New Spain, South Sea, San Miguel, Diego de Huelva, Nuño de Guzman, Vasco Porcallo New!
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On the twenty-seventh day of the month of June 1527 Governor Pánfilo de Narváez departed from the port of San Lúcar de Barramed,1 with power and mandate from Your Majesty to conquer and govern the provinces that extend from the River of the Palms2 to the Cape of Florida, which lie on the mainland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Shipwrecked Men, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes, Isle of Misfortune, Lope de Oviedo, New Spain, South Sea, San Miguel, Diego de Huelva, Nuño de Guzman, Vasco Porcallo New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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