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Informationen zum Autor Enrique Pupo-Walker is Centennial Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. His edition of Naufragios was published in Spain in 1992. Frances M. López-Morillas is an award-winning translator living in Austin! Texas. Klappentext This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of "Castaways" ("Naufragios")! Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca! was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's Florida! Louisiana! and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the long westward journey on foot to meet up with Hernan Cortes.In order to survive! Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples along the way! learning their languages and practices and serving them as a slave and later as a physician. When after eight years he finally reached the West! he was not recognized by his compatriots.In his writing Cabeza de Vaca displays great interest in the cultures of the native peoples he encountered on his odyssey. As he forged intimate bonds with some of them! sharing their brutal living conditions and curing their sick! he found himself on a voyage of self-discovery that was to make his reunion with his fellow Spaniards less joyful than expected.Cabeza de Vaca's gripping narrative is a trove of ethnographic information! with descriptions and interpretations of native cultures that make it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. Frances M. Lopez-Morillas's translation beautifully captures the sixteenth-century original. Based as it is on Enrique Pupo-Walker's definitive critical edition! it promises to become the authoritative English translation. Zusammenfassung A narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue I Which Recounts When the Fleet Sailed! and the Officers and Men Who Went in It II How the Governor Arrived at the Port of Jagua and Brought a Pilot with Him III How We Reached Florida IV How We Marched Inland V How the Governor Left the Ships VI How We Reached Apalachee VII Of the Manner of the Land VIII How We Departed from Aute IX How We Departed from the Bay of Horses X Of the Fight We Had with the Indians XI Of What Befell Lope de Oviedo with Some Indians XII How the Indians Brought Us Food XIII How We Had News of Other Christians XIV How Four Christians Departed XV What Befell Us in the Isle of Ill Fortune XVI How the Christians Departed from the Isle of Ill Fortune XVII How the Indians Came and Brought Andres Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico XVIII Of the Report Given to Figueroa by Esquivel XIX How the Indians Separated Us XX How We Escaped XXI How We Cured Some Sufferers There XXII How They Brought Us More Sick Folk Next Day XXIII How We Departed after Eating the Dogs XXIV Of the Customs of the Indians of That Land XXV Of the Indians' Readiness to Use Arms XXVI Of the Tribes and Their Languages XXVII How We Moved and Were Well Received XXVIII Of Another New Custom XXIX How Some Indians Robbed the Others XXX How the Custom of Receiving Us Changed XXXI How We Followed the Maize Road XXXII How They Gave Us Hearts of Deer XXXIII How We Saw Traces of Christians XXXIV How I Sent for the Christians XXXV How the Mayor Received Us Well on the Night We Arrived XXXVI How We Caused Churches to Be Built in That Land XXXVII Of What Befell When I ...
