Name: The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza De Vaca von Haniel Long
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The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza De Vaca Zusammenfassung

The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza De Vaca Haniel Long

In November 1528 a group of Spanish soldiers are washed ashore in the Gulf of Mexico. The leader of the expedition was Cabeza de Vaca and he would spend eight years travelling across North America, enduring starvation and enslavement, to return to his home. Based on a true story, but effused with Haniel Long's poetry, this novella is comparable to Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet in its understanding of what men can do when they must do something or die. It is a testimony to mankind's ability to help each other. Also included is Long's Malinche, the story of a slave girl who served as Cortes's translator during his conquest of Mexico. Long's gifts as a poet bring a magical quality to the telling of this story. Malinche comes to embody the image of the ideal woman that all men carry in their hearts.

The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza De Vaca Bewertungen

De Vaca discovered in himself not only the power to work miracles but the humility to respect and ultimately love the Indian, and the courage to proclaim his brotherhood. The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca is the poet Haniel Long's brilliant reconstruction of this conversion... (it) has inspired a cult. -- Vogue * . *
A tiny gem of a book... eloquent narrative that seeps around you and into every pore. It's the most humbling of reads... The most powerfully condensed amount of humility and wisdom you are ever likely to find crammed into a mere thirty-nine pages. -- dovegreyreader * one of Britain's leading book blogs *
Two edifying episodes... deeply felt and delicately written, they have all the ingredients to become a cult. -- Sunday Times * . *
This little book is a gem like Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees, Saint-Expury's The Little Prince or Jim Dodge's Fup, that through the force of its brevity remains with you far longer than many much lengthier books. -- The Ecologist * . *
The Marvellous Adventure retells one shameful episode in the history of class, race and colonisation. But Long gives de Vaca a redeeming vision of individual responsibility still relevant today. Henry Miller was right to call this book 'a bright spot in the history of man -- The Times * . *

Über Haniel Long

Haniel Long is a legendary, though obscure, figure in American literature. At one stage he was so highly regarded that the Encyclopaedia Britannica ranked him with Whitman and Emerson. Born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1888 he was brought to the USA at the age of three and attended Harvard University (where he worked with T.S. Eliot on the 'Harvard Advocate'). After working as an academic and publishing volumes of poetry Long moved to Santa Fe in 1929 and worked as a literary editor and publisher.

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Sku

GOR004625588

ISBN 13

9780285637818

ISBN 10

0285637819

Titel

The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza De Vaca Haniel Long

Autor

Haniel Long

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Profile Books Ltd

Datum

2007-04-09

Anzahl der Seiten

112

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N/A

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