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English Translations of La relación (in chronological order)

  • "A Relation of Alvaro Nunez Called Capo di Vaca, concerning that which happened to the fleet in india, whereof pamphilo narvaez was governor, from the yeere 1527. Until the yeere 1536. Translated out of Ramusio and abbreviated" Purchas: His Pilgrimage. Volume IV, Book 8, Chapter 1, pp 1499-1528. London, 1625.
  • An Account of the Voyage to Florida made by the Fleet Under the Command of Pamphilo Narvaez and Written by Alvar Nunez, an Officer in the same. London, 1705.
  • Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca. Trans. Thomas Buckingham Smith. Washington, 1851.
  • Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca. Trans. Thomas Buckingham Smith. New York: J. Munsell, 1871.
  • The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Translated From His Own Narrative. By Fanny Bandelier. Edited with an introduction by Adolph F. Bandelier. New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1905.
  • Relation that Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca gave of what befel the armament in the Indias whither Pánphilo de Narváez went for Governor (from the years 1527 to 1537) when with three comrades he returned and came to Sevilla. Printed from the Buckingham Smith translation of 1871. Illustrations by Valenti Angelo. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929.
  • Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America. Trans. Cyclone Covey. New York: Collier Books, 1961.
  • The Saga of Cabeza de Vaca. Trans. Tomas Robertson. Ensenada, Mexico: Privately Published, 1963.
  • The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Trans. Fanny Bandelier. Barre, Massachesetts: The Imprint Society, 1972.
  • The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Translated From His Own Narrative. By Fanny Bandelier. Edited with an introduction by Adolph F. Bandelier. New York: AMS Press, 1973.
  • Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America. Trans. Cyclone Covey. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.
  • The Account: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación. Trans. Martin A. Favata and José B. Fernández. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1993.
  • Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Enrique Pupo-Walker (ed.) Trans. Frances M. López-Morillas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  • A Cabeza de Vaca book: (his) torture and triumph in early America (1527-1537): the Bandelier translation of his report to the king, reproductions of the report in the original Spanish, (and) an adddendum of related notes and references. Doyle Phillips (Editor.) Big Spring, Texas: Doyle Phillips/FotoGrafica, 1999.
  • Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca, translated by Harold Augenbraum. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Penguin, 2002
  • The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca. By Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Pautz. (a translation of the 1542 edition.) University of Nebraska Press, 2003.