Early Florida Adventure Story

A rare eyewitness account of a journey from Spain to the Americas during the Spanish colonial periodAmong documents of Floridas Spanish colonial period, few eyewitness accounts exist. One of these, the 1595 narrative by Fray Andrs de San Miguel, expertly translated into English by John Hann, describes the two-year odyssey of a teenager from Spain across the Atlantic to Mexico, Havana, and Florida ...