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In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel García Márquez
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- Released
- 1989
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Publisher
- Vintage International
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 106
- ISBN10
- 067972205x
- ISBN13
- 9780679722052
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Adventure, Creative Nonfiction, 20th century, Novellas, Narrative Journalism, Spanish Literature, Ships, Survival, Seas and Oceans, Nobel prize, Based on True Events, Narration, Latin American Literature, Navy, Starvation, Colombia, Castaways, Colombian Literature
- First published
- 1970
- Original title
- Relato de un náufrago
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.