TY  - BOOK
AU  - Worth,John E.
TI  - Discovering Florida: first-contact narratives from Spanish expeditions along the lower Gulf Coast 
T2  - Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
SN  - 9780813048833
AV  - E123 .W384 2014eb
U1  - 973.12479 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Gainesville, FL
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Expeditions & Discoveries
KW  - Florida
KW  - History
KW  - To 1565
KW  - Floride
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 1565
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index; Introduction: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Exploration of Florida's Lower Gulf Coast -- 1. The Juan Ponce de León Expeditions, 1513-1521 -- 2. The Pánfilo de Narváez and Hernando de Soto Expeditions and the Captivity of Juan Ortiz, 1528-1539 -- 3. The Luís Cancer Expedition, 1549 -- 4. The Captivity of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, 1549-1566 -- 5. The Pedro Menendez de Aviles Expeditiions, 1566-1569
N2  - Florida's lower gulf coast was a key region in the early European exploration of North America, with an extraordinary amount of first-time interactions between Spaniards and Florida's indigenous cultures. Discovering Florida compiles all the major writings of Spanish explorers in the area between 1513 and 1566. Including transcriptions of the original Spanish documents as well as English translations, this volume presents-in their own words-the experiences and reactions of Spaniards who came to Florida with Juan Ponce de León, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hernando de Soto, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilé
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