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This is the gripping story of a doomed mission to North America - and the four survivors who journeyed for a decade across the new world just discovered by Christopher Columbus. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim…
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The age of European exploration and colonization of North America is filled with epic tales of adventure, as people from entirely different civilizations first came in contact.
Europeans dreamed of creating colonial empires and gaining wealth and influence in a new land about which they knew nothing about, while natives were at first unsure how to respond to these curious visitors and what exactly their unexpected presence meant.
In A Land So Strange, author Andres Resendez recounts the tale of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a man who sojourned across the North American continent in the early 1500s after the…
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