EPISODE · Aug 13, 2020 · 15 MIN
The Great Escape
from A New History of Old Texas · host Brandon Seale
Episode 14 of Brandon Seale's podcast on Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.How prickly pears brought the four old expeditionaries together. How they gorged on the nasty little fruits. And how they embarked on the first leg of their great pilgrimage that would carry them across the continent over the next eighteen months.Pages: f34v-f36r in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999).Cover art: "Esteban." The Granger Collection, New York. Image available on the Internet, viewed on 12 May 2020. https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/148310.Selected BibliographyAdorno, Rolena and Patrick Charles Pautz. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1999)Boyd Carolyn. Rock Art of the Lower Pecos (2013)Krieger, Alex. We Came Naked and Barefoot (2002)Reséndez, Andrés. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (2007)Stockdale, James Bond. “Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior” (1993)“Through the Eyes of the Explorer: Cabeza de Vaca on the South Texas Plains.” TexasBeyondHistory.Net (viewed July 6, 2020)Wittliff Collections (Texas State University) exhibition on Cabeza de Vaca (including a digitized copy of an original 1555 edition of La Relación).www.BrandonSeale.com
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Episode 14 of Brandon Seale's podcast on Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. How prickly pears brought the four old expeditionaries together. How they gorged on the nasty little fruits. And how they embarked on the first leg of their great pilgrimage that would carry them across the continent over the next eighteen months. Pages: f34v-f36r in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999). Cover art: "Esteban." The Granger Collection, New York. Image available on the Internet, viewe...
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