Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
- ISBN-10
- 1101911093
- ISBN-13
- 9781101911099
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-10-15
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Gabriel García Márquez
Description
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! 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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