Castaways
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Castaways

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Castaways

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This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of Castaways ( Naufragios ), Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the long westward journey on foot to meet up with Hernán Cortés. In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples along the way, learning their languages and practices and serving them as a slave and later as a physician. When after eight years he finally reached the West, he was not recognized by his compatriots. In his writing Cabeza de Vaca displays great interest in the cultures of the native peoples he encountered on his odyssey. As he forged intimate bonds with some of them, sharing their brutal living conditions and curing their sick, he found himself on a voyage of self-discovery that was to make his reunion with his fellow Spaniards less joyful than expected. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping narrative is a trove of ethnographic information, with descriptions and interpretations of native cultures that make it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. Frances M. López-Morillas's translation beautifully captures the sixteenth-century original. Based as it is on Enrique Pupo-Walker's definitive critical edition, it promises to become the authoritative English translation.

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Yes, you can access Castaways by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Enrique Pupo-Walker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Storia & Storia nordamericana. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520070622
eBook ISBN
9780520910287
Edition
1
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Storia nordamericana

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Editor's Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. PROLOGUE. To His Sacred, Caesarean, Catholic Majesty
  7. CHAPTER I. Which Recounts When the Fleet Sailed, and the Officers and Men Who Went in It
  8. CHAPTER II. How the Governor Arrived at the Port of Jagua and Brought a Pilot with Him
  9. CHAPTER III. How We Reached Florida
  10. CHAPTER IV. How We Marched Inland
  11. CHAPTER V. How the Governor Left the Ships
  12. CHAPTER VI. How We Reached Apalachee
  13. CHAPTER VII. Of the Manner of the Land
  14. CHAPTER VIII. How We Departed from Aute
  15. CHAPTER IX. How We Departed from the Bay of Horses
  16. CHAPTER X. Of the Fight We Had with the Indians
  17. CHAPTER XI. Of What Befell Lope de Oviedo with Some Indians
  18. CHAPTER XII. How the Indians Brought Us Food
  19. CHAPTER XIII. How We Had News of Other Christians
  20. CHAPTER XIV. How Four Christians Departed
  21. CHAPTER XV. What Befell Us in the Isle of Ill Fortune
  22. CHAPTER XVI. How the Christians Departed from the Isle of Ill Fortune
  23. CHAPTER XVII. How the Indians Came and Brought Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico
  24. CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Report Given to Figueroa by Esquivel
  25. CHAPTER XIX. How the Indians Separated Us
  26. CHAPTER XX. How We Escaped
  27. CHAPTER XXI. How We Cured Some Sufferers There
  28. CHAPTER XXII. How They Brought Us More Sick Folk Next Day
  29. CHAPTER XXIII. How We Departed after Eating the Dogs
  30. CHAPTER XXIV. Of the Customs of the Indians of That Land
  31. CHAPTER XXV. Of the Indians’ Readiness to Use Arms
  32. CHAPTER XXVI. Of the Tribes and Their Languages
  33. CHAPTER XXVII. How We Moved and Were Well Received
  34. CHAPTER XXVIII. Of Another New Custom
  35. CHAPTER XXIX. How Some Indians Robbed the Others
  36. CHAPTER XXX. How the Custom of Receiving Us Changed
  37. CHAPTER XXXI. How We Followed the Maize Road
  38. CHAPTER XXXII. How They Gave Us Hearts of Deer
  39. CHAPTER XXXIII. How We Saw Traces of Christians
  40. CHAPTER XXXIV. How I Sent for the Christians
  41. CHAPTER XXXV. How the Mayor Received Us Well on the Night We Arrived
  42. CHAPTER XXXVI. How We Caused Churches to Be Built in That Land
  43. CHAPTER XXXVII. Of What Befell When I Decided to Return
  44. CHAPTER XXXVIII. What Befell the Others Who Went to the Indies
  45. APPENDIX A. Note on the Text
  46. APPENDIX B. The American Cultures Described in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios
  47. Notes
  48. Select Bibliography
  49. Index