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Fri 10 Jan, 2003 08:49 pm
Is any one else amazed and fascinated by the saga of Cabeza de Vaca?
Is This Who You Mean?
If it is I think it would be a wonderful topic for discussion.
Well, if you are really referring to "Relación of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca", it's not a saga at all and indeed a very phascinating topic, as Joan pointed it out.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am. An epic journey.
And welcome, Pitter. You are looking more and more like a valuable member.
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Yes that's who I mean. Don't have it here and can't remember if it was published by the University of Arizona Press or New Mexico but the tranlation of the original journal I read is titled "Cabeza De Vaca, Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America". I am fascinated first because it is the first European account of the lives of the relatively poor Indian tribes along the southern US coast and second, an atheist myself I find the references to the power of his religious faith interesting.
I have been intrigued with that guy since I lived in New Mexico.
Ever read anything involving Elfago Baca. The man seems to have been the prototype for half the paperback westerns on the market?
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