The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

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The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

by active 16th century Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Ulrich Schmidel

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Chris Curnow, René Anderson Benitz, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2015-01-24

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Public domain in the USA.

About the authors

active 16th century Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

active 16th century Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

A shipwreck survivor, explorer, and unforgettable storyteller, this 16th-century Spaniard left one of the earliest firsthand accounts of North America. His journeys across today’s American South and Southwest, and later in South America, turned hardship into a narrative that still feels astonishingly vivid.

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Ulrich Schmidel

Ulrich Schmidel

A German soldier and chronicler of the early Spanish expeditions in South America, he left behind one of the best-known firsthand accounts of the Río de la Plata region in the 1500s. His writing blends adventure, hardship, and close observation of a world being violently reshaped.

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