The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca: His Account of the Disastrous First European Exploration of the American Southwest

Of the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover and conquer the wilderness of North America, only four returned — after covering about 6,000 miles in the course of eight harrowing years. Cabeza de Vaca's incredible account of his 1528-1536 expedition of what is now the southern and southwestern United States and northern Mexico is unparalleled in the history of exploration. The first European to see and report sightings of the buffalo and the Mississippi River, he presents a narrative that crackles with excitement and suspense, from interactions with friendly and hostile Indians and observations on their culture, to passionate descriptions of the pristine beauty of the American wilderness.

• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
• A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
• Conquistador Voices (vol I): The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants (Volume 1)
• The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)
• The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)
• Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)
• Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Vinland Sagas (Penguin Classics)
• Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians