The Moor's account
(Book - Regular Print)
Author
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2014].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2014].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
UPC
40023995332
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán Cortés. But from the moment the Narváez expedition landed in Florida, it faced peril--navigational errors, disease, starvation, as well as resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year there were only four survivors: the expedition's treasurer, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer named Andrés Dorantes de Carranza; and Dorantes's Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori, whom the three Spaniards called Estebanico. These four survivors would go on to make a journey across America that would transform them from proud conquis-tadores to humble servants, from fearful outcasts to faith healers.
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Prescott Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books | LALAMI, LAILA | Find It Now |
Sedona Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books | LALAMI, L. | Find It Now |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lalami, L. (2014). The Moor's account (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lalami, Laila, 1968-. 2014. The Moor's Account. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lalami, Laila, 1968-. The Moor's Account Pantheon Books, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lalami, Laila. The Moor's Account First edition., Pantheon Books, 2014.
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