Survivors from the Narvaez's Expedition from Spain to the gulf of Florida. *Thank you to Goodreads for this first reads giveaway, and to the author for the enjoyment given*ฤก slave.a black Arab Moor, 'Mustafa/Estebanico', and three Castilians are the only This is a really well written, absorbing tale, with a different perspective on this historical event. What the author has done here is taken a factual event and written a fictional tale from the point of view of Estebanico. The Narvaez expedition is well documented, and the surviving slave is mentioned in one of the documents. After one year there are just four survivors. After arriving in this new world, the men are soon faced with disease, a lack of navigational competence, starvation, and resistance from the indigenous tribes. Mustafa, now known by his slave name Estebanico, is one of them. That same year the conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez, together with 600 crew, sailed for what is now known as the Gulf Coast in the United States. There's a certain irony about this, as Mustafa had been involved in the slave trade himself before his life collapsed around him. The year is 1527, and this once wealthy Moroccan trader has sold himself to a Spanish captain in order that his family may eat. Mustafa ibn Muhammad is about to discover how fragile are the threads that tie together the fabric of our lives.
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