The Resource The Moor's account : a novel, Laila Lalami
The Moor's account : a novel, Laila Lalami
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The item The Moor's account : a novel, Laila Lalami represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307911667
- Label
- The Moor's account : a novel
- Title
- The Moor's account
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Laila Lalami
- Subject
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- America -- Early accounts to 1600 | Fiction
- Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 1475-1519 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Morocco -- Fiction
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528 -- Fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century -- Fiction
- America -- Discovery and exploration | Spanish -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lalami, Laila
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3612.A543
- LC item number
- M66 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Balboa, Vasco Núñez de
- Narváez, Pánfilo de
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
- America
- America
- Morocco
- Label
- The Moor's account : a novel, Laila Lalami
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000053396088
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307911667
- Isbn Type
- (cloth: alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013045255
- Other control number
- 40023995332
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)864676623
- Label
- The Moor's account : a novel, Laila Lalami
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000053396088
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307911667
- Isbn Type
- (cloth: alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013045255
- Other control number
- 40023995332
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)864676623
Subject
- America -- Early accounts to 1600 | Fiction
- Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 1475-1519 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Morocco -- Fiction
- Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528 -- Fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century -- Fiction
- America -- Discovery and exploration | Spanish -- Fiction
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