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Author Reséndez, Andrés.

Title 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 / Andrés Reséndez.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2007]
©2007

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  970.01 RES    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  970.01 RESENDEZ    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  970.016 RESENDEZ    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  970.01 RESENDEZ    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  970.016 R31    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  970.01 RES    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  970.01 RESENDEZ    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  970.01 RES    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction -- The prize that was snatched away -- A voyage of redemption -- Landfall -- Walking through Florida -- On rafts -- Enslaved -- Into the heart of the continent -- Following the corn trail -- Contact -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-302) and index.
Subject Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
Explorers -- America -- Biography.
Explorers -- Spain -- Biography.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Indians -- First contact with other peoples.
Indians, Treatment of -- America -- History.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- America -- History.
Indigenous people -- First contact with other peoples.
ISBN 9780465068401
0465068405
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