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Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America
Contributor(s): Schneider, Paul (Author)
ISBN: 0805083200     ISBN-13: 9780805083200
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
OUR PRICE:   $23.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2007
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Annotation: The journey of the Narvaez expedition is one of the greatest survival epics in the history of American exploration. By combining the accounts of the explorers with the most recent findings of archaeologists and academic historians, this work offers an authentic narrative to replace a legend of North American exploration.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Expeditions & Discoveries
- History | North American
- History | Europe - Spain & Portugal
Dewey: 973.16
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.1 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 16th Century
 
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Publisher Description:

Schneider's thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget.
--The New York Times Book Review

A gripping survival epic, Brutal Journey tells the story of an army of would-be conquerors, bound for glory, who landed in Florida in 1528. But only four of the four hundred would survive: eight years and some five thousand miles later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Cortes's gold-drenched Mexico. The survivors of the Narváez expedition brought nothing back other than their story, but what a tale it was. They had become killers and cannibals, torturers and torture victims, slavers and enslaved. They became faith healers, arms dealers, canoe thieves, spider eaters. They became, in other words, whatever it took to stay alive.

Contributor Bio(s): Schneider, Paul: - Paul Schneider is the acclaimed author of Bonnie and Clyde, Brutal Journey, The Enduring Shore, and The Adirondacks, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. He and his family live in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.