description: This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time.
language: English
title: Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Life Raft for Ten Days Without Food or Water
titlecomplete: Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Life Raft for Ten Days Without Food or Water
genres: Classics, Adventure, Latin American Literature, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Novels, Spanish Literature, School, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 27312
publisher: Random House Trade