Relation of Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.
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Relation of Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.
Author:
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
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Publication Information:
Ann Arbor [Mich.] University Microfilms [1966]
Physical Description:
300 pages portraits 22 cm.
Series:
March of America facsimile series, no. 9
March of America facsimile series ; no. 9.
General Note:
Original t.p. has imprint: New York, 1871.
The 1st Spanish ed. was published at Zamora in 1542, under title: "La relacion que dio Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca de lo acaescido en las Indias en la armada donde yua por Gouernador Páphilo de Narbáez desde el año de veynte y siete hasta el año de treynta y seys ..." The present ed. is a revision of B. Smith's translation privately printed at Washington in 1851 from the second Spanish ed. published at Valladolid, 1555.
"Alva[r] Nunẽz Cabeça de Vaca [by T.W. Field]": p. 233-254. "Memoir of Thomas Buckingham Smith [by J.G. Shea]": p. [255]-263. The appendix includes translations of various Spanish documents relating to the expedition of Narváez and its historian.
Summary:
The First account of travels in what is now the United States was written by De Vaca, a member of a Spanish expedition.
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