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The Moor's account : a novel
- Title
- The Moor's account : a novel / Laila Lalami.
- Author
- Lalami, Laila, 1968-
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 14-1420 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- 323 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán Cortés. But from the moment the Narváez expedition landed in Florida, it faced peril--navigational errors, disease, starvation, as well as resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year there were only four survivors: the expedition's treasurer, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer named Andrés Dorantes de Carranza; and Dorantes's Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori, whom the three Spaniards called Estebanico. These four survivors would go on to make a journey across America that would transform them from proud conquis-tadores to humble servants, from fearful outcasts to faith healers.
- Subjects
- America
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century
- Discovery and exploration, Spanish
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- America > Early accounts to 1600 > Fiction
- Morocco > Fiction
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century > Fiction
- America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish > Fiction
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528 > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-1420
- ISBN
- 9780307911667
- 0307911667
- LCCN
- 2013045255
- 40023995332
- OCLC
- 864676623
- Author
- Lalami, Laila, 1968- author.
- Title
- The Moor's account : a novel / Laila Lalami.
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2014]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023995332
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-1420JFE 15-6595