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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca [electronic resource] : The ‘Great Pedestrian' of North and South America / by Donald E. Chipman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chipman, Donald E.
- Series:
- Fred Rider Cotten popular history series ; no. 20.
- Fred Rider Cotten popular history series ; no. 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Explorers--Spain--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Explorers--America--Biography.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.
- America.
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Texas : Texas State Historical Association, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cabeza de Vaca's mode of transportation, afoot on portions of two continents in the early decades of the sixteenth century, fits one dictionary definition of the word "pedestrian." By no means, however, should the ancillary meanings of "commonplace" or "prosaic" be applied to the man, or his remarkable adventures. Between 1528 and 1536, he trekked an estimated 2,480 to 2,640 miles of North American terrain from the Texas coast near Galveston Island to San Miguel de Culiacán near the Pacific Coast of Mexico. He then traveled under better circumstances, although still on foot, to Mexico
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-66) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-87611-298-X
- OCLC:
- 869736217
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