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Books about Cabeza de Vaca

An excellent narrative history on Cabeza de Vaca and his adventures is A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Resendez.

Other Books about Cabeza de Vaca (in chronological order)

  • The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca by Morris Bishop. New York & London: The Century Company, 1933.
  • Texas as it was then: "A conspectus of the adventures of Cabeza de Vaca and La Salle in Texas" by Chris Emmett. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1935.
  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; the journey and route of the first European to cross the continent of North America, 1534-1536, by Cleve Hallenbeck. The Arthur H. Clark company, 1940.
  • The Power Within Us (Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca), by Haniel Long. Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, Inc. 1944.
  • Dos Conquistadors: Cabeza de Vaca, Junipero Serra by Manuel Salas. New York: The Dryden Press, 1949.
  • Apalachee gold : the fabulous adventures of Cabeza de Vaca by Frank G. Slaughter. Doubleday, 1954.
  • First Man to Cross North America: The Story of Cabeza de Vaca, by Ronald Syme. Illustrated by William Stobbs. William Morrow & Company, 1961.
  • Journey into Darkness: Cabeza de Vaca's Expedition Across North America, 1528-36 by John Upton Terrell. London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1964.
  • Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca by Haniel Long. Introduction by Henry Miller. Frontier Press, 1969.
  • The Marvelous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca (Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca) by Haniel Long. Southern Methodist University Press, 1972.
  • The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca by Morris Bishop. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1972.
  • DeGrazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca by Ted DeGrazia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1973.
  • Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Forgotten Chronicler by José B. Fernández. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1975.
  • Black Ulysses by Daniel Panger. Ohio University Press, 1982.
  • The Children of the Sun by Oakley M. Hall. Scribner, 1983.
  • Child of the Sun : a Historical Novel Based on the Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America by Frank Cheavens. Illustrations by Buck (J.M.) and Ted Cheavens. Sante Fe, New Mexico: Frank Cheavens/Sun Publishing Co. (distributor), 1985.
  • Cabeza de Vaca: His Relation of the Journey (Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca), by Haniel Long. Introduction by Henry Miller. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Okeanos Press, 1988.
  • Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Western Writers Series) by Peter Wild. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1991.
  • The Marvelous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca (Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca) by Haniel Long. Introduction by Henry Miller. The Dawn Horse Press, 1992.
  • Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas by David A. Howard. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
  • Black Conquistador: The Narvaez Expedition in Florida (Historic Adventure Series, No. 1) by I. Mac Perry. Boca Bay Books, 1998.
  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez (Three-Volume Set), by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz. University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
  • Conquistadors by Michael Wood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
  • Plus Ultra: Life and Times of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca by Alfred Rodriguez. Writers Club Press, 2001.
  • We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza De Vaca Across North America(Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series) by Alex D. Krieger, Margery H. Krieger (Editor), Thomas R. Hester. Austin: U of Texas P, 2003.