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Format:
Book
Title:
A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century
ISBN:
9780465068401

9780465068418
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, ©2007.
Physical Description:
xiv, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- The prize that was snatched away -- A voyage of redemption -- Landfall -- Walking through Florida -- On rafts -- Enslaved -- Into the heart of the continent -- Following the corn trail -- Contact -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Chronicles the story of a small band of Spanish explorers who became separated from their ships in Florida and began a trek across the continent during the early sixteenth century.
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