false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211877281m/2016127.jpg 2016127 2 The gripping story of a doomed mission to North America -- and the four survivors who journeyed for a decade across the new world just discovered by Christopher Columbus. <P>In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. <P>Of the four hundred men who had embarked on the voyage, only four survived -- three Spaniards and an African slave. This tiny band endured a horrific march through Florida, a harrowing raft passage across the Louisiana coast, and years of enslavement in the American Southwest. They journeyed for almost ten years in search of the Pacific Ocean that would guide them home, and they were forever changed by their experience. The men lived with a variety of nomadic Indians and learned several indigenous languages. They saw lands, peoples, plants, and animals that no outsider had ever before seen. <P>In this enthralling tale of four castaways wandering in an unknown land, Andrés Reséndez brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever. 2020418 12 11 2007 A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century total:60|5:8|4:27|3:21|2:4|1:0| 60 219 136 33 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 06:52:55 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 08:51:45 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 07:19:41 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 13:47:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:55:12 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:55:12 -0800 2009 In A Land So Strange, University of California, Davis, history professor Andr‚ŕö¬©s Res‚ŕö¬©ndez relates this improbable tale with dynamic grace (Carolyn See of the Washington Post compares the book to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Moby-Dick). The author combines sound research‚Äîincluding mo...

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This was a fantastic read, full of fascinating, thought-provoking, and harrowing stories of the incredible journey from Florida to the Gulf of California. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 09:38:49 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 10:46:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 03 12:15:21 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 12:27:35 -0700 2009 0 0 true false Fri Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 15 18:10:19 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 18:17:06 -0700 2008 Vaca, Estebanico and the other two survivors of
sixteenth century shipwreck. It is exciting to
learn about this neglected episode in the history
of the Americas. Estebanico and Cabeza de Vaca
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