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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
| 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 |
| Names | Reséndez, Andrés. |
| Book Number | DB068086 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | Historian profiles Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who, with three others, survived a failed 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida. Describes the group's harrowing passage across the Gulf of Mexico, years of captivity in what later became Texas, and trek through the wilderness to the Pacific coast. Violence. 2007. |
| Narrator | Toren, Suzanne. |
| Local Subject | Adult Book - AD |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| Short Book - SH | |
| Biography & Autobiography - BIO | |
| Biography - Historical - BIH | |
| Adventure Non-Fiction - ADVNF | |
| Biography - Adventure - BIAD | |
| History, United States - HUS | |
| History - HST | |
| Audience Notes | Female narrator. |
| Contains violence. |
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| LC Subject | Explorers - America - Biography |
| Explorers - Spain - Biography |
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| Indians - First contact with Europeans |
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| Indians, Treatment of - America - History |
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| America - Discovery and exploration - Spanish |
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| Call Number | 970.016092 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2007 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2007 (American Foundation for the Blind, recording studio). |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: New York : Basic Books, c2007. 9780465068401 |