Cabeza de Vaca

Antonio Pérez Henares refutes the absolutism of the Black Legend in this magnificent historical novel that recreates the fascinating life of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the Spaniard who best understood the indigenous way of life in the 16th century. The pages of this novel lead us through a life of legend. From the moment the young Álvar, an orphan of noble birth, felt the urge to travel to the Americas, to his voyage in 1527 aboard a fleet of five ships bound for Florida, where, after storms and Indian attacks, he was shipwrecked in Tampa Bay. A prisoner and slave of the indigenous people, he managed to escape with only three companions and, from tribe to tribe, crossed the entire American continent from east to west. An incredible journey on foot that lasted nine years and in which he ended up being venerated as a great shaman by Sioux, Apaches, Tarahumaras and other peoples, until he managed to find his own people again and meet Hernán Cortés in Mexico City.