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The Moor's Account

✍ Scribed by Laila Lalami

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 216 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9782013045254

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✦ Synopsis

From the widely praised author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits--a stunning piece of historical fiction: the imagined memoirs of the New World's first explorer of African descent, a Moroccan slave known as Estebanico.

In 1527, Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from Spain with a crew of six hundred men, intending to claim for the Spanish crown what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. But from the moment the expedition reached Florida, it met with ceaseless bad luck--storms, disease, starvation, hostile natives--and within a year there were only four survivors, including the young explorer Andrés Dorantes and his slave, Estebanico. After six years of enslavement by Native Americans, the four men escaped and wandered through what is now Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The Moor's Account brilliantly captures Estebanico's voice and vision, giving us an alternate narrative for this famed expedition....

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