In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida.
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..
They saw lands, peoples, plants, and animals that no outsider had ever before seen.
The men lived with a variety of nomadic Indians and learned several indigenous languages.
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.
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.
Of the four hundred men who had embarked on the voyage, only four survived-three Spaniards and an African slave.
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.
From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, the gripping Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard who Walked Across America in the sixteenth century ( Financial Times) In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida.
In this enthralling tale, Resendez brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever.
But the expedition went horribly wrong, and only four of the 300 men survived.
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida
