The Shipwrecked Men by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

The Shipwrecked Men

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

160 pages first pub 1542 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced

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The original disaster narrative, The Shipwrecked Men tells how a confident, well-equipped Spanish expedition to explore the Florida mainland came utterly to grief through arrogance, storms and bad luck, leaving a handful of survivors to stagger to...

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adventurous 66%
informative 66%
dark 33%
challenging 16%

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slow 33%
medium 16%

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