num_pages: 160
description: The original disaster narrative, The Shipwrecked Men 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.
language: English
title: The Shipwrecked Men
titlecomplete: The Shipwrecked Men (Great Journeys)
genres: Biography, Adventure, Spanish Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, American History, Travel, History, Spain
ratings_count: 2711
publisher: Penguin