The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America
by
Alex D. Krieger, Thomas R. Hester
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six...