by Cabeza de Vaca

Penguin Great Journeys No. 4 – Lost in the Wilds of America, c. 1530.

He had been missing for five days and his companions had given him up for dead. But Cabeza de Vaca was a survivor. He was one of six hundred men who had set off to conquer and govern America – but shipwrecks, hurricanes, starvation, disease and cannibalism ensured just four lived to tell their extraordinary tale of human endurance and courage. They were, unwittingly, the first Europeans to cross the American south-west.

• Paperback
• 149 pages
• ISBN: 9780141025360