The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

• Author(s): Gabriel García Márquez,
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Pages: 128
• ISBN_10: 067972205X
  ISBN_13: 9780679722052
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers , Fiction / Hispanic & Latino , Fiction / Sea Stories ,

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.