The Moor's account, a novel, Laila Lalami
Type
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The Moor's account, a novel, Laila Lalami
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Moor's account
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
864676623
Responsibility statement
Laila Lalami
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán Cortés. But from the moment the Narváez expedition landed in Florida, it faced peril--navigational errors, disease, starvation, as well as resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year there were only four survivors: the expedition's treasurer, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer named Andrés Dorantes de Carranza; and Dorantes's Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori, whom the three Spaniards called Estebanico. These four survivors would go on to make a journey across America that would transform them from proud conquis-tadores to humble servants, from fearful outcasts to faith healers
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- America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Fiction
- Discovery and exploration, Spanish
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century
- Fiction
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528 -- Fiction
- United States
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century -- Fiction
- Morocco
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528
- America
- America -- Early accounts to 1600 -- Fiction
- Morocco
- historical novels (form)
- Alternative histories
- Alternative histories (fiction)
- Morocco -- Fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
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- America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Fiction
- Discovery and exploration, Spanish
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century
- Fiction
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528 -- Fiction
- United States
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century -- Fiction
- Morocco
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528
- America
- America -- Early accounts to 1600 -- Fiction
- Morocco
- historical novels (form)
- Alternative histories
- Alternative histories (fiction)
- Morocco -- Fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Content1
- Author1
- Mapped to1