*** Winner of the American Book Award *** Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 *** A Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction *** In 1527, a conquistador arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers and claimed the region for Spain. Within a year of navigational errors, disease, starvation and fierce resistance from indigenous tribes, only four survivors remained: three noblemen, and a Moroccan slave known as Estebanico. The official record contains only the accounts of the noblemen. This is the story of Estebanico - a vibrant merchant from Barbary forced into slavery and a new name, reborn as the