Castaways

AvAlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca,Enrique Pupo-Walker

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

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 Nunez 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 Hernan Cortes. In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native people 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 people 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. Lopez-Morillas' 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-09-23
Mått:127 x 203 x 15 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Latin American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:158
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520070639
Översättare:Frances M. López-Morillas, Frances M. Lopez-Morillas

Utforska kategorier

Reseguider inom Reseguider
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Essäer inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Enrique Pupo-Walker is Centennial Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. His edition of Naufragios was published in Spain in 1992. Frances M. Lopez-Morillas is an award-winning translator living in Austin, Texas.

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of IllustrationsEditor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologueI Which Recounts When the Fleet Sailed,and the Officers and Men Who Went in ItII How the Governor Arrived at the Portof Jagua and Brought a Pilot with HimIII How We Reached FloridaIV How We Marched InlandV How the Governor Left the ShipsVI How We Reached ApalacheeVII Of the Manner of the LandVIII How We Departed from AuteIX How We Departedfrom the Bay of HorsesX Of the Fight We Had with the IndiansXI Of What Befell Lope de Oviedowith Some IndiansXII How the Indians Brought Us FoodXIII How We Had Newsof Other ChristiansXIV How Four Christians DepartedXV What Befell Us inthe Isle of Ill FortuneXVI How the Christians Departedfrom the Isle of Ill FortuneXVII How the Indians Cameand Brought Andres Dorantes andCastillo and EstebanicoXVIII Of the Report Given toFigueroa by EsquivelXIX How the Indians Separated UsXX How We EscapedXXI How We Cured Some Sufferers ThereXXII How They Brought Us MoreSick Folk Next DayXXIII How We Departed afterEating the DogsXXIV Of the Customs of the Indiansof That LandXXV Of the Indians' Readinessto Use ArmsXXVI Of the Tribes and Their LanguagesXXVII How We Moved andWere Well ReceivedXXVIII Of Another New CustomXXIX How Some IndiansRobbed the OthersXXX How the Custom of ReceivingUs ChangedXXXI How We Followed the Maize RoadXXXII How They Gave Us Hearts of DeerXXXIII How We Saw Traces of ChristiansXXXIV How I Sent for the ChristiansXXXV How the Mayor Received Us Wellon the Night We ArrivedXXXVI How We Caused Churches to BeBuilt in That LandXXXVII Of What Befell When IDecided to ReturnXXXVIII What Befell the Others WhoWent to the IndiesAPPENDIX A Note on the TextAPPENDIX a The American Cultures Describedin Cabeza de Vaca's NaufragiosNotesSelect BibliographyIndex