The Moor's account : a novel
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New York : Pantheon Books, [2014].
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2014].
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Book
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323 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Includes bibliographical references.
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"... 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 conquistadores to humble servants, from fearful outcasts to faith healers"--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lalami, L. (2014). The Moor's account: a novel (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lalami, Laila, 1968-. 2014. The Moor's Account: A Novel. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lalami, Laila, 1968-. The Moor's Account: A Novel Pantheon Books, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lalami, Laila. The Moor's Account: A Novel First edition., Pantheon Books, 2014.
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