Download Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer AudioBook Free

In November 1528, almost a hundred years prior to the Pilgrims got at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of any Spanish expedition come to the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490 - 1559) and three other survivors experienced strolled 2,500 mls from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and in the end to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca's bill of this astonishing journey is now named one of the fantastic travel stories ever and a touchstone of " NEW WORLD " literature. But his profession did not get started and end along with his UNITED STATES ordeal. Robin Varnum's biography, the first single-volume, cradle-to-grave bill of the explorer's life in 80 years, explains to all of those other story. During Cabeza de Vaca's peregrinations through the American Southwest, he resided among and interacted with various Indian teams. When he and his non-Indian companions finally reconnected with Spaniards in northern Mexico, he was horrified to learn that his compatriots were enslaving Indians there. In Río de La Plata he tried out to keep his men from robbing the Indians, enslaving them, or exploiting them sexually - guidelines that brought on grumbling one of the troops. When Cabeza de Vaca's men mutinied, he was repaid to Spain in stores to stand trial prior to the Royal Council of the Indies.

Category: Spain & Portugal