Author: Garcilaso de la Vega
- Non-Fiction
- University of Texas Press
- ISBN: 9780292724341
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Paloma Graciani

This is the first chronicle of the Indies written by a mestizo author born in the New World, the son of a Spanish captain and an Inca princess. It narrates the failed expedition (1539-1543) of the explorer Hernando de Soto to the vast and unexplored territory known as La Florida.