Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition Summary
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition Summary

The Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition (1555) is Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's account of his years as a survivor of a doomed Spanish mission, lost in what is now the southern part of the United States. The expedition landed at present-day Tampa Bay, Florida, and moved from Florida to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. The Chronicle is the first published book by a European about what was to became the...

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