The Inexplicable Turn

Episode 19 of Brandon Seale's podcast on Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.How the four expeditionaries came to within a few weeks’ march of the Rio de las Palmas, their goal for the last seven years. How they turned away from their goal. And how it becomes apparent that the spiritual movement they were "leading" wasn't really about them. Pages: f46v-f48v in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999).Cover art: "Children of the Sun" by Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia, Courtesy of DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, DeGrazia Foundation, Tucson, Arizona. All Rights Reserved.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