La relación de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (“The story of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca”).
After being shipwrecked on an island off of what is now Galveston, Texas, Cabeza de Vaca spent the next nine years traveling on foot until eventually making his way to Mexico City, and then back to Spain.
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Skeletons on the Zahara: a story of survival by Dean King
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. It dives into a Colombian culture I was really unfamiliar with and learning about the spirituality and parallels of the writer’s life to her mother’s makes the book feel like magical realism.
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La relación de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (“The story of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca”).
After being shipwrecked on an island off of what is now Galveston, Texas, Cabeza de Vaca spent the next nine years traveling on foot until eventually making his way to Mexico City, and then back to Spain.
Skeletons on the Zahara: a story of survival by Dean King
The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. It dives into a Colombian culture I was really unfamiliar with and learning about the spirituality and parallels of the writer’s life to her mother’s makes the book feel like magical realism.
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