description: Translated by Randolf Hogan. 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.
language: English
title: Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
titlecomplete: Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
genres: Classics, Adventure, Latin American Literature, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Novels, Spanish Literature, School, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 27313
publisher: Random House Value Publishing