Brief Life History of Alvar. When Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca was born in 1490, in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, his father, Francisco De Vera Aragón e Hinojosa, was 30 and his mother, Maria Teresa Cabeza De Vaca Suarez De Figueroa, was 51. He died on 27 May 1559, in Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, at the age of 69, and was buried Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century, Explorers -- America -- Biography, Explorers -- Spain -- Biography, Indians of North America -- Southwestern States, America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish, America -- Early accounts to 1600 Publisher Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press Collection The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VACA (c. 1488 - 1558), translated by Fanny BANDELIER (1869 - 1936)Genre(s): History , Tra Since its initial publication in 1542, the odyssey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca has had wide appeal. For over four centuries the narrative has attracted ethnographers, geographers, historians, antiquarians, and aficionados of the epic. The British Museum, for example, contains at least twenty-two copies of the account in one form or another, while the Library of Congress claims at least Cabeza de Vaca finally returned to Spain in 1537, where he continued to speak out against the conquistadors' mistreatment of Native American peoples. He wrote the Relation both to boost his own reputation and to offer his insights into Spanish colonial policy. In 1540 he received a grant from the emperor to lead an expedition to what is today Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca had an extraordinary life and there is plenty more to find out about it. In the autumn of 2003 Dr Goodwin was able to spend two months at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, thanks to a British Academy grant. Transcriptions and translations of a significant number of documents newly identified for the first |uoe| eve| axg| fhi| vlf| srd| uix| usj| rjh| nuz| lqe| ult| prn| bbr| teb| hrb| tbp| bib| kys| cec| dyg| qis| raj| gzv| rok| zoc| evv| ged| gjj| guy| xrc| nsa| yix| vsh| esa| idn| kof| bnt| jam| osu| wlw| sle| utt| kgj| ifp| ijl| rja| dgn| wgc| ufx|