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Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor The
Author: Marquez Gabriel Garcia
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Retail Price: | $19.99 |
Betabooks Price | $15.99 |
ISBN: 9780241968604
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
Published By: Penguin
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Published: April 2014
Published By: Penguin
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'On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia.'
In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Márquez retells the survivor's amazing tale, from his loneliness and thirst, to his determination to survive.
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was Márquez's first major, and controversial, work, published in Colombian newspaper El Espectador, in 1955. It is being re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.