Viage al Rio de La Plata y Paraguay

This unvarnished travelogue puts you alongside a young German soldier‑turned chronicler who joined Pedro de Mendoza’s 1534 fleet bound for the Río de la Plata. From the tempest that scattered the convoy in the Canary Islands to the uneasy anchorage at San Gabriel, the narrator sketches the frantic launch of the first European settlement that would become Buenos Aires. His eye catches the stark contrast between the bewildered Charrúa who yielded without a fight and the fiercely armed Querandí, whose darts and bolas met disciplined Spanish steel in brutal skirmishes.

Beyond the opening clash, the diary follows the expedition’s desperate march through hunger‑ridden camps, where a handful of survivors out of the original two‑thousand‑plus are recorded in stark, almost clinical detail. Later, the author accompanies the explorer Oyolas upriver into Paraguay, offering rare, sometimes exaggerated, estimates of tribal forces and vivid descriptions of the landscape. Listeners will hear a raw, first‑hand portrait of conquest, survival, and the fragile beginnings of a city that would shape a continent.