Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
- Writer
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's account of an expedition to Florida was
published in 1542 in Zamora and was entitled Naufragios (Shipwrecks) at
its publication in Valladolid in 1555. Nunez was treasurer during the
mission led by Panfilo de Narvaez, which took him and some 350 fellow
travellers to Florida in 1527, to conquer and administer territories
North of the Gulf of Mexico. May 1st, 1528, the expedition landed at
Old Tampa Bay, Florida. This would mark the beginning of a disastrous
expedition that would leave only four survivors, among whom Cabeza de
Vaca, whose book is the account of that disastrous journey.
