The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/13/1989
ISBN: 9780679722052
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.34d