Relentless, urgent and above all musical, Russell Persson's expertly crafted The Way of Floridarecasts thetragic story of the failed Narvez expedition.

This tale has trickled down through the centuries viaLa Relacin, the official report published in 1542, as well asmany other subsequent retellings.A calamitous attempt to establish Spanishcolonies along the Gulf Coast, of the 300 crew sent inland to explore, only four survived this eight-year ordeal.In bracing, beautiful language this timely narrativeof botched colonialism, nowin its first American Edition,radically reimagines the parameters andresponsibilities of the historical novel.Linguistically rich, sinuous, and maybe even heroic, The Way of Florida offers historical fiction like you have never read it before.