Crossing the continent, 1527-1540
Subtitle: the story of the first African-American explorer of the American South
By: Robert Goodwin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins; Harper
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780061140440; 9780061140457; 9780061705298
Subjects: Estevan, -- d. 1539; Explorers -- America -- Biography; Explorers -- Spain -- Biography; Blacks -- America -- Biography; Slaves -- America -- Biography; Slavery -- America -- History -- 16th century; Cibola, Seven Cities of; Southwestern States -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish; Southern States -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
Genres: Biography.
Description: Documents the sixteenth-century crossing of North America by a trio of Spanish noblemen and a pioneering former African slave who endured such challenges as a shipwreck, famine, disease, and Native American attacks.