The
Moor's account
Lalami, Laila
creator
author.
text
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Biographical fiction
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Historical fiction
enk
Reading
Garnet Press
2015
monographic
eng
430 pages ; 20 cm.
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.
Laila Lalami.
Formerly CIP.
The Man Booker Prize, Longlisted 2015.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Finalist 2015.
Estevan
-1539
Fiction
Narvaez, Panfilo de
-1528
Fiction
Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
active 16th century
Fiction
America
Early works to 1800
Fiction
Florida
Discovery and exploration
Spanish
Fiction
America
Discovery and exploration
Spanish
Fiction
Morocco
Fiction
America
Early accounts to 1600
Fiction
813/.6
9781859644270
1859644279
YDXCP
150803
20200707114853.0
000055265344
eng