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The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram
- b_emery 9y agoFacinating story, and well written with a proper amount of skepticism I think. This quote in particular sheds an interesting light on ... I dont know, the 1500's? "The word of an ordinary, uneducated sailor like Ingram was not to be trusted, not because he would make things up so much as he couldn’t tell the difference between fact and fiction."
- JoeDaDude 9y agoGreat story. I am reminded of the story of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who walked from somewhere near modern day Galveston all the way back to Mexico City in 1527 [1]. His record of the voyage is a wealth of information on Native American societies prior to the arrival of Europeans. [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca#La_relaci.C3.B3n_of_.C3.81lvar_N.C3.BA.C3.B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cab...