This is a short history providing a lot of context and background and additional sources to one of the more famous captivity narratives published from the New World during the colonization of the Americas. This book follows the journey of Cabeza de Vaca, a mostly low level Spanish finance official who joins a voyage to America alongside about 300 other people. Of the 300, four would survive, and that would come after eights years of the voyage during which he acts as a colonizer, a […]