This book was pretty good, a little hard to get into at first. It's essentially a historical fiction about one of the Spanish expeditions that discovered the territory of Florida. It's told from the view of a Moroccan slave named Mustafa (later renamed Estevanico by his master). Mustafa recounts his journey into slavery, his experience in the New World and life after the expedition.
The Spanish came by the hundreds on this conquest to find a land they heard had piles of gold. When they land in Florida they encounter Native tribes whom they treat poorly. Some of the tribes help them, some stay away from them. Years pass, they are stranded on this land and don't find the myth of gold. They realize the alternative is to survive with the wary Natives or die in a foreign land.
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