About the book: 1975 / In 1528, a detachment of Spanish conquistadors landed on the shores of Florida. After an unsuccessful campaign deep into the peninsula, the Spaniards, who sent their ships to the west, built boats and sailed along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico towards the mouth of the Mississippi. On the way, most of the aliens die. Among the few survivors is Advar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. He makes a dramatic, adventurous journey from Texas to Mexico, that is, through lands completely unknown to Europeans at that time. The book "Shipwrecks", which became an outstanding historical, geographical and literary monument of the era of the Great Geographical Discoveries, is a report on this journey.