by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782868694201
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«Relation de voyage» is the travel chronicle of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, published by Actes Sud in paperback (208 pages, in French).
The work recounts the Spanish expedition that sets out from Andalusia in 1527 towards Florida; Cabeza de Vaca, treasurer of the fleet, is shipwrecked on the northern coast of Mexico. After being enslaved, he acts as a trader and healer and defends the indigenous people against his compatriots, on a long journey to the southwestern United States.
With translation and commentary by Bernard Lesfargues and Jean-Marie Auzias; the foreword is by Yves Berger. The French edition, translated from Spanish, appeared in 1989 in the Terres d'aventure collection.
For readers of historical chronicles and exploration narratives about sixteenth-century Spanish America and its indigenous peoples.
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is today the Southwestern United States, he became a trader, evangelist, and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536.
