Castaway
Subtitle: The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cageza de Vaca
Contributors: Enrique Pupo-Walker (Editor); Frances M. López-Morillas (Translator)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 23, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780520070639
Subjects: American history; Classic travel writing; Geographical discovery & exploration; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar,; Explorers; Spain; Discovery And Exploration (General); History - U.S.; Indians of North America; History: World; North America; History - General History; United States - Colonial Period; History / General; Biography; Southwestern States; 16th cent; America; Discovery and exploration; Early accounts to 1600
First sentence: On the seventeenth of June in the year fifteen hundred and twenty-seven, Governor Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda with authority and orders from Your Majesty to conquer and govern the provinces that lie between the river of Las Palmas and the tip of Florida, which are on the mainland.