The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor PUB196404 ISBN13: 9781545627716

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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor PUB196404 ISBN13: 9781545627716In 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.