The Moor's Account

by Laila Lalami

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0307911667
  • ISBN13 9780307911667
  • Publish Date 9 September 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 11 October 2023
  • Imprint Pantheon Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Language English