ISBN10: 0393918157, ISBN13: 9780393918151, [publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York] Softcover First Edition Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 152736 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition tells the unforgettable story of a sixteenth-century soldier turned explorer who, along with three other survivors of a shipwreck, makes his way across an unknown geographic and cultural landscape. This Norton Critical Edition is based on David Fryes new translation. It is accompanied by Ilan Stavans introduction, the translators preface, the editors detailed explanatory annotations, and a map tracing Cabeza de Vacas journey from Florida to California. "Alternative Narratives and Sequels" enriches the readers understanding of and appreciation for Cabeza de Vacas chronicle, which can be read both as historical record and as fiction (Cabeza de Vaca having written his account years after the events took place). Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdezs General and Natural History of the Indies (1535) provides a different account of the same journey, while sequels can be found in a 1539 letter from the Viceroy of New Spain to the Emperor and in Fray Marcos de Nizas Relacion on the Discovery of the Kingdom of Cibola (1539). The Spanish explorers, soldiers, and missionaries of the period saw the New World as a place of ...
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ISBN10: 0393918157, ISBN13: 9780393918151, [publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York] Softcover First Edition Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 152736 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition tells the unforgettable story of a sixteenth-century soldier turned explorer who, along with three other survivors of a shipwreck, makes his way across an unknown geographic and cultural landscape. This Norton Critical Edition is based on David Fryes new translation. It is accompanied by Ilan Stavans introduction, the translators preface, the editors detailed explanatory annotations, and a map tracing Cabeza de Vacas journey from Florida to California. "Alternative Narratives and Sequels" enriches the readers understanding of and appreciation for Cabeza de Vacas chronicle, which can be read both as historical record and as fiction (Cabeza de Vaca having written his account years after the events took place). Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdezs General and Natural History of the Indies (1535) provides a different account of the same journey, while sequels can be found in a 1539 letter from the Viceroy of New Spain to the Emperor and in Fray Marcos de Nizas Relacion on the Discovery of the Kingdom of Cibola (1539). The Spanish explorers, soldiers, and missionaries of the period saw the New World as a place of ...
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