Robert Goodwin

Robert Goodwin is a British historian and author who specialises in the history of the Spanish Empire and early European exploration of the Americas. His writing brings the dramatic, often brutal history of the Age of Exploration to vivid, accessible life. Crossing the Continent 1527-1540 tells the extraordinary true story of the first Europeans to cross North America — a small group of Spanish survivors who walked from Florida to Mexico over eight years, encountering dozens of Indigenous nations and enduring almost unimaginable hardship. Goodwin's account reads like the most improbable adventure fiction. The audiobook and book versions offer listeners and readers a remarkable, gripping work of narrative history. Goodwin's work appeals to fans of exploration history, early American history, and anyone who loves true stories of survival that are stranger and more dramatic than fiction.