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Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Few tales of shipwreck and survival can rival that of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a 16th-century Spaniard who found himself cast ashore near Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1528. Over the next eight years, he endured a hand-to-mouth existence among the Native Americans of the South and Southwest, ultimately traversing the plains on foot to reach the Pacific Coast and arriving in Mexico in 1536. In 1542, Cabeza de Vaca published an account of his remarkable adventures, and this reading draws from Fanny…
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