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 Spanish who best understood the indigenous way of life in the 16th century. The pages of this novel lead us through a life of legend. Since the young Álvar, an orphan of noble blood, felt the urge to go to the Americas until his trip, in 1527, in a fleet of five ships bound for Florida, where, after storms and Indian attacks, he ended up shipwrecked in the bay from Tampa. Prisoner and slave of the indigenous people, he managed to flee with just three more companions and, from tribe to tribe, and cross the entire American continent from east to west. An incredible journey on foot that lasted nine years and in which he ended up being revered as a great shaman by Sioux, Apaches, Taraumaras and peoples, until he found his people again and met Hernán Cortés in Mexico City. This impeccably documented narration shows us the incredible life epic of an atypical conqueror, who lived for years with a multitude of American ethnic groups, whom he understood and defended, fighting for a different way of implanting Spanish rule in the New World.