num_pages: 321
description: In 1527 the conquistador Pnfilo de Narvez sailed from the port of Sanlcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and in the process become as wealthy and famous as Hernn Corts.But from the moment the Narvez expedition landed in Florida it faced perilnavigational errors disease starvation as well as resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year there were only four survivors: the expeditions treasurer lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer named Andrs Dorantes de Carranza; and Dorantess Moroccan slave Mustafa al-Zamori whom the three Spaniards called Estebanico. These four survivors would go on to make a journey across America that would transform them from proud conquistadores to humble servants from fearful outcasts to faith healers.
language: English
title: The Moor's Account
publisher: Pantheon