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PUPO-WALKER, ENRIQUE, ED. CASTAWAYS: THE NARRATIVE OF ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA. TRANSLATED BY FRANCES M. LOPEZ-MORILLAS. BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1993. XXX + 158 PP. ILLUSTRATIONS, APPENDICES, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX. $30 CLOTH; $12 PAPER.
Castaways is an excellent translation of Enrique Popo-Walker's Naufragios, published in Spain in 1992 by Editorial Castalia. It is yet another example of recent interest in Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, that great pedestrian who trekked across substantial portions of both North and South America in the first half of the sixteenth century. Appearing also in 1993 was another translation of Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios (Shipwrecks), published by Arte Publico Press in Houston. Both translations are superior to Cyclone Covey's Cabeza's de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1961, 1984).
Cabeza de Vaca was treasurer and second in command of a...