{"product_id":"chronicle-of-the-narvaez-expedition-isbn-9780142437070","title":"Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own words\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, \u003cb\u003eAlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca\u003c\/b\u003e, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Florida through Louisiana and Texas into California. In thirty-eight brief chapters, Cabeza de Vaca describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across an unknown land. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction by Ilan Stavans; Revised and Annotated Translation by Harold Augenbraum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSuggested Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations: Facsimile of the Title Page of the 1542 Edition; The Route of Cabeza de Vaca\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003eChronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: When the Fleet Left Spain and the Men Who Went with It\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: How the Governor Came to Xagua and Brought a Pilot with Him\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: How We Arrived in Florida\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: How We Went to the Interior\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: How the Governor Left the Ships\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: How We Got to Apalache\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: The Lay of the Land\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: How We Left Aute\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: How We Left the Bay of Horses\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: On the Skirmish We Had with the Indians\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: What Happened to Lope de Oviedo with Some Indians\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve: How the Indians Brought Us Food\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen: How We Learned About Other Christians\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fourteen: How Four Christians Departed\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fifteen: What Happened to Us on the Isle of Misfortune\u003cbr\u003eChapter Sixteen: How the Christians Left the Island\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seventeen: How the Indians Arrived with Andrés Dorantes and Castillo and Estavanico\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eighteen: Esquiviel's Account, Related by Figueroa\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nineteen: How the Indians Separated Us\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty: How We Fled\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-One: How We Cured Several Sick People\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Two: How the Following Day They Brought Other Sick People\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Three: How We Departed After Eating the Dogs\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Four: The Customs of the Indians of That Land\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Five: How Ready the Indians Are with Weapons\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Six: On Nations and Languages\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Seven: How We Moved and Were Received\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Eight: On Another New Custom\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Nine: How They Steal from One Another\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty: How the Manner of Reception Changed\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-One: How We Followed the Corn Trail\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-Two: How They Gave Us Hearts of Deer\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-Three: How We Saw Traces of Christians\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-Four: How I Sent for the Christians\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-Five: How Well the Chief Magistrate Received Us on the Night of Our Arrival\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-Six: How We Had Churches Built in That Land\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-Seven: What Occurred When I Wished to Return\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-Eight: What Happened to the Others Who Went to the Indies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColophon\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlan Stavans\u003c\/b\u003e is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the author or editor of numerous books.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302577688805,"sku":"NP9780142437070","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142437070.jpg?v=1767723719","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/chronicle-of-the-narvaez-expedition-isbn-9780142437070","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}