Castaways / Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Enrique Pupo-Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century, author.

Pupo-Walker, Enrique, author.

Series:

Latin American literature and culture (Berkeley, Calif.) ; Volume 10.

Latin American Literature and Culture Series ; Volume 10

Standardized Title:

Relación y comentarios. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Explorers--America--Biography.

Explorers.

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 158 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 Núñez 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 Hernán Cortés. In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples 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 peoples 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. López-Morillas's 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PROLOGUE. To His Sacred, Caesarean, Catholic Majesty

CHAPTER I. Which Recounts When the Fleet Sailed, and the Officers and Men Who Went in It

CHAPTER II. How the Governor Arrived at the Port of Jagua and Brought a Pilot with Him

CHAPTER III. How We Reached Florida

CHAPTER IV. How We Marched Inland

CHAPTER V. How the Governor Left the Ships

CHAPTER VI. How We Reached Apalachee

CHAPTER VII. Of the Manner of the Land

CHAPTER VIII. How We Departed from Aute

CHAPTER IX. How We Departed from the Bay of Horses

CHAPTER X. Of the Fight We Had with the Indians

CHAPTER XI. Of What Befell Lope de Oviedo with Some Indians

CHAPTER XII. How the Indians Brought Us Food

CHAPTER XIII. How We Had News of Other Christians

CHAPTER XIV. How Four Christians Departed

CHAPTER XV. What Befell Us in the Isle of Ill Fortune

CHAPTER XVI. How the Christians Departed from the Isle of Ill Fortune

CHAPTER XVII. How the Indians Came and Brought Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estebanico

CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Report Given to Figueroa by Esquivel

CHAPTER XIX. How the Indians Separated Us

CHAPTER XX. How We Escaped

CHAPTER XXI. How We Cured Some Sufferers There

CHAPTER XXII. How They Brought Us More Sick Folk Next Day

CHAPTER XXIII. How We Departed after Eating the Dogs

CHAPTER XXIV. Of the Customs of the Indians of That Land

CHAPTER XXV. Of the Indians' Readiness to Use Arms

CHAPTER XXVI. Of the Tribes and Their Languages

CHAPTER XXVII. How We Moved and Were Well Received

CHAPTER XXVIII. Of Another New Custom

CHAPTER XXIX. How Some Indians Robbed the Others

CHAPTER XXX. How the Custom of Receiving Us Changed

CHAPTER XXXI. How We Followed the Maize Road

CHAPTER XXXII. How They Gave Us Hearts of Deer

CHAPTER XXXIII. How We Saw Traces of Christians

CHAPTER XXXIV. How I Sent for the Christians

CHAPTER XXXV. How the Mayor Received Us Well on the Night We Arrived

CHAPTER XXXVI. How We Caused Churches to Be Built in That Land

CHAPTER XXXVII. Of What Befell When I Decided to Return

CHAPTER XXXVIII. What Befell the Others Who Went to the Indies

APPENDIX A. Note on the Text

APPENDIX B. The American Cultures Described in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Translation of: Relación y comentarios.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-150) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520910287

0520910281

9780585130026

0585130027

OCLC:

1149408535