THE MARVELLOUS ADVENTURE OF CABEZA DE - Softcover

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 .)