Castaways : the narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / edited by Enrique Pupo-Walker ; translated by Frances M. López-Morillas.

ISBN:

9780520910287

9780585130026

Title:

Castaways : the narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / edited by Enrique Pupo-Walker ; translated by Frances M. López-Morillas.

Author:

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.

Personal Author:

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.

Uniform Title:

Relación y comentarios. English

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 158 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Latin American literature and culture ; 10

General Note:

Translation of: Relación y comentarios.

Contents:

Which recounts when the fleet sailed, and the officers and men who went in it -- How the governor arrived at the port of Jagua and brought a pilot with him -- How we reached Florida -- How we marched inland -- How the governor left the ships -- How we reached Apalachee -- Of the manner of the land -- How we departed from Aute -- How we departed from the Bay of Horses -- Of the fight we had with the Indians -- Of what befell Lope de Oviedo with some Indians -- How the Indians brought us food -- How we had news of other Christians -- How four Christians departed -- What befell us in the Isle of Ill Fortune -- How the Christians departed from the Isle of Ill Fortune -- How the Indians came and brought Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico -- Of the report given to Figueroa by Esquivel -- How the Indians separated us -- How we escaped -- How we cured some sufferers there -- How they brought us more sick folk next day -- How we departed after eating the dogs -- Of the customs of the Indians of that land -- Of the Indians' readiness to use arms -- Of the tribes and their languages -- How we moved and were well received -- Of another new custom -- How some Indians robbed the others -- How the custom of receiving us changed -- How we followed the maize road -- How they gave us hearts of deer -- How we saw traces of Christians -- How I sent for the Christians -- How the mayor received us well on the night we arrived -- How we caused churches to be built in that land -- Of what befell when I decided to return -- What befell the others who went to the Indies -- Appendix A : Note on the text -- Appendix B : The American cultures described in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios.

Local Note:

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Personal Subject:

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar.

Subject Term:

Indians of North America -- Southwestern States.

Explorers -- America -- Biography.

Explorers -- Spain -- Biography.

Geographic Term:

America -- Early accounts to 1600.

America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.

Southwestern States -- Description and travel.

Added Author:

Pupo-Walker, Enrique.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

1993

Publication Information:

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Summary

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.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.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

Author Notes

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Alvar :

Enrique Pupo-Walker is Centennial Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. His edition of Naufragios was published in Spain in 1992. Frances M. López-Morillas is an award-winning translator living in Austin, Texas.