num_pages: 128
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.
language: English
title: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
titlecomplete: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
genres: Spanish Literature, Nobel Prize, School, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Latin American Literature
ratings_count: 27303
publisher: Vintage