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Nearly three centuries before Lewis and Clark's epic trek to the Pacific coast, an African slave named Esteban Dorantes became America's first great explorer and adventurer—the first pioneer from the Old World to explore the entirety of the American South. Shipwrecked off the Florida coast, Esteban guided a small band of survivors on an incredible, eight-year-long journey westward—enduring famine, disease, and Native American hostility as the company made their way across what is now Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, traveling as far as the Gulf of California.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, long-lost records, and Dr. Robert Goodwin's groundbreaking research in Spanish archives, Crossing the Continent is a riveting true story of physical endurance, natural calamities, geographical wonders, and strange discoveries—a remarkable chronicle that offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

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Robert Goodwin is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. He has also studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies at University College London, and in Spain at the universities of Granada and Seville. Goodwin lives in London.

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The author admits that much of his story about the Spaniards crossing North America in the sixteenth century comes from apocryphal accounts. His writing includes many worthwhile lessons on how he located old sources and attempted to extract the facts from them. His flowery and wordy prose adds generous color to a story of much starvation, disease, and death. Like the author, narrator Simon Prebble is British, and employs an accent and pronunciations foreign to many American ears. His pristine English and skill at narration have won him many AUDIOFILE Earphones Awards, but his inept Spanish deserves no praise. This may matter little to most listeners, but one wonders why a reader without spanish-language skills would be selected for an audiobook all about Spain and Mexico. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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