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The Moor's account : a novel /

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...

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Main Author:	Lalami, Laila, 1968-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Pantheon Books, [2014]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Narváez, Pánfilo de, > -1528 > Fiction. Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, > active 16th century > Fiction. America > Early works to 1800 > Fiction. America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish > Fiction. Morocco > Fiction. Historical fiction.

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