Research Catalog

Title

• We came naked and barefoot : the journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America / Alex D. Krieger ; edited by Margery H. Krieger ; foreword and afterword by Thomas R. Hester.

Author

Krieger, Alex D. (Alex Dony), 1911-

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.
• Krieger, Margery H.
• Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.

Description

xvii, 318 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Perhaps there has never been a survivor quite like Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six years of captivity among native peoples, and an arduous, overland journey in which he and the three other remaining survivors of the original expedition walked some 1,500 miles from the central Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then another 1,300 miles to Mexico City."--Jacket.

Series Statement

• Texas archaeology and ethnohistory series

Uniform Title

Texas archaeology and ethnohistory series

Subject

• 1500-1599
• America > Early works to 1600
• America > Spanish
• Indians of North America > History > 16th century
• Indians of North America > Southwest, New > History > 16th century
• Natural history > North America
• Natural history > Southwest, New
• North America > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
• Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century > Travel > North America
• Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century
• Southwest, New > Description and travel > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Early accounts to 1600.
• Early works
• Early works to 1800.
• History

Note

• Includes translations of Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación y comentarios and of Fernández de Oviedo y Váldes' Historia general y natural de las Indias, book 35, chapters 1-7.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca -- pt. III. Summary and Conclusions -- App. 1. Account of the Disasters: (Relacion de los naufragios) / Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca -- App. 2. Historia general y natural de las Indias, Book 35, Chapter I-VII / Gonzalo Fernando de Oviedo y Valdez.

ISBN

0292743505 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002004973

OCLC

49576828

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library