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The Moor's account : a novel / Laila Lalami.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.A543 M66 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lalami, Laila, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528--Fiction.
- Narváez, Pánfilo de.
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century--Fiction.
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar.
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528.
- Discoveries in geography.
- America--Early accounts to 1600--Fiction.
- America.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Fiction.
- Morocco--Fiction.
- Morocco.
- United States.
- historical novels (form).
- Discoveries in geography--Spanish.
- Local Subjects:
- Morocco.
- United States.
- historical novels (form).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Alternative histories.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 323 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2014]
- Summary:
- Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán Cortés. But from the moment the Narváez expedition landed in Florida, it faced peril--navigational errors, disease, starvation, as well as resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year there were only four survivors: the expedition's treasurer, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer named Andrés Dorantes de Carranza; and Dorantes's Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori, whom the three Spaniards called Estebanico. These four survivors would go on to make a journey across America that would transform them from proud conquis-tadores to humble servants, from fearful outcasts to faith healers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Arab American Book Award - Fiction, Winner, 2015
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Fiction , Winner, 2015
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780307911667
- 0307911667
- OCLC:
- 864676623
- Publisher Number:
- 40023995332
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