TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lalami,Laila
TI  - The Moor's account
SN  - 9781859644270
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Reading
PB  - Garnet Press
KW  - Estevan,
KW  - Narvaez, Panfilo de,
KW  - Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar,
KW  - America
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Florida
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Spanish
KW  - Morocco
KW  - Early accounts to 1600
KW  - Alternative histories (Fiction)
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Formerly CIP
N2  - 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
ER  -