The Account
Subtitle: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)
Contributors: Martin A. Favata (Translator); Jose B. Fernandez (Translator)
Edition: Subsequent edition
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: February 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781558850606
Subjects: Geographical discovery & exploration; Language Teaching & Learning (Other Than ELT); Spanish; Language; Expeditions & Discoveries; Discovery And Exploration (General); Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar,; Foreign Language Study; History - General History; North America; South America; Explorers; North American; 16th cent; Southwestern States; Spain; America; Biography; Indians of North America
First sentence: On the seventeenth day of the month of June of 1527, Governor Panfilo de Narvaez departed from the port of San Lucar de Barrameda by authority and order of Your Majesty to conquer and govern the provinces which lie on the mainland from the River of Palms to Cape Florida.
Description: A new and improved translation of Spanish explorer Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle of his journey across a large portion of what is now the United States.