The journey of the Narvaez expedition is one of the greatest survival epics in the history of American exploration.
They became, in other words, whatever it took to stay alive..
They became faith healers, arms dealers, canoe thieves, spider eaters.
They had become killers and cannibals, torturers and torture victims, slavers and enslaved.
The survivors of the Narváez expedition brought nothing back other than their story, but what a tale it was.
But only four of the four hundred would survive: eight years and some five thousand miles later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the North of the Rio Grande and into Cortes\'s gold-drenched Mexico. -- The New York Times Book Review A gripping survival epic, Brutal Journey tells the story of an army of would-be conquerors, bound for glory, who landed in Florida in 1528.
Schneider\'s thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget.
By combining the accounts of the explorers with the most recent findings of archaeologists and academic historians, this work offers an authentic narrative to replace a legend of North American exploration.
The journey of the Narvaez expedition is one of the greatest survival epics in the history of American exploration
