Andre Resendez

A Land So Strange

The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. Cabeza de Vaca ultimately wrote an extraordinary chronicle of his journey. This work conjoins the facts recounted by Cabeza with the author's own research in the history and culture of 16th century North America to describe this epic journey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780465068418
• ISBN-10: 0465068413
• Artikelnr.: 23453402

Autorenporträt

Andrés Reséndez is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. His book The Other Slavery won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is most recently the author of Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery. He lives in Davis, California, with his family.