Author: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
- Non-Fiction
- Forgotten Books
- ISBN: 9781332393305
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Gaspar Orozco

This account of the journeys of Spanish explorer Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca throughout northern North America, and later throughout the southernmost regions of the continent, evinces, beyond its immense historical importance, literary and human merit of the first order. In clear and precise prose, Alvar Núñez details the fortunes (less of these) and misfortunes (more of these) of his wanderings in the almost unfathomable distances of the southern United States and northern Mexico, collecting his incisive observations about the regions and the inhabitants encountered along the way. Naufragios y Comentarios is an eyewitness testimony to one of the great enterprises of the human spirit.