Penguin Books

Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel García Márquez

On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia.' In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor's amazing tale of endurance, from his loneliness and thirst to his determination to survive. "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" was Marquez's first major, and controversial, work, published in a Colombian newspaper, "El Espectador", in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.

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