We Came Naked and BarefootPerhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600 man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six years of captivity among native peoples, and an arduous, overland journey in which he and the three other remaining survivors of the original expedition