Castaways Le récit d'Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

Résumé

A narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36).



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 Nunez 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 Hernan Cortes. In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native people 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 people 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. Lopez-Morillas' 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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Contenu

Langue
en
Binding
Broché
Date de sortie initiale
23 septembre 1993
Nombre de pages
158
Illustrations
Non

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Deuxième auteur
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Rédacteur en chef
Enrique Pupo-Walker
Editeur principal
University Of California Press

Traduction

Premier traducteur
Frances M. Lopez-Morillas

Autres spécifications

Hauteur de l'emballage
19 mm
Hauteur du produit
19 mm
Largeur d'emballage
127 mm
Largeur du produit
146 mm
Livre d‘étude
Non
Longueur d'emballage
203 mm
Longueur du produit
216 mm
Poids de l'emballage
227 g
Police de caractères extra large
Non

EAN

EAN
9780520070639

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