Account, The: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación

by Martin A. Favata, José B. Fernández

Overview

The Account is one of the earliest chronicles of Spanish penetration into North America. His journey (1528-1536) of hardship and misfortune is one of the most remarkable in the history of the New World and contains many first descriptions of the lands and their inhabitants. The Account, first published in Zamora, Spain, in 1542, is of inestimable value for students of history and literature, ethnographers, anthropologists and the general reader. It is also one of the most remarkable literary documents for the style, clarity and sense of drama in the narrator’s extraordinary effort to comprehend a totally new and marvelous world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781518502347
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	04/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	416,476
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

MARTIN FAVATA is the co-editor of Edición Crítica de La Relación o Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Scripta Humanistica, 1986). He was Chairman of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Tampa.

JOSÉ FERNÁNDEZ is the author of José San Martin: Latin America’s Quiet Hero (The Millbrook Press, 1994), Los abuelos, historia oral cubana (Ediciones Universal, 1988), and Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Forgotten Chronicler (Ediciones Universal, 1975). He is Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at University of Central Florida.