Product Description: In 1527 a doomed expedition left Spain for Florida. Most of the 600 men were lost when the fleet was wrecked off Texas. Four men escaped, including Cabeza de Vaca, only to endure six years of captivity by Native Americans. In 1536 they arrived in Mexico City having escaped and walked at least 1,500 miles across North America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents an account of the trouble-plagued expedition that led Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca from Santo Domingo to Florida to Texas to Mexico at the end of the sixteenth century. (view table of contents)

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