The story of a shipwrecked sailor : who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Randolph Hogan.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Vintage International, 1989, ©1986Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: ix, 106 pages : map ; 20 cmISBN: 067972205X; 9780679722052Uniform titles: Relato de un náufrago. English Subject(s): Velasco, Luis Alejandro | Caldas (Ship) | Shipwreck survival | Shipwreck survival -- Caribbean Sea | Sailors -- Colombia -- Biography | Survival at seaDDC classification: 910.916365 | 910.09163 LOC classification: G530.V442 | G3713 1989Summary: 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.
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This translation originally published: New York : Knopf, 1986.
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.
Translation of: Relato de un náufrago.
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