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A Land So Strange The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andres Resendez


Free Download A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andres Resendez
Oct 7, 2011 | English | ASIN: B00NJ17744 | 7 hrs 13 mins | M4B & MP3@63 kbps
222 to 225 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived – three Spaniards and an African slave. 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. They journeyed for almost 10 years in search of the Pacific Ocean that would guide them home, and they were forever changed by their experience. The men lived with a variety of nomadic Indians and learned several indigenous languages. They saw lands, peoples, plants, and animals that no outsider had ever seen before.
In this enthralling tale of four castaways wandering in an unknown land, Andres Resndez brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever.

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