| The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Contributor(s): García Márquez, Gabriel (Author), Hogan, Randolph (Translator) |
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ISBN: 067972205X ISBN-13: 9780679722052 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1989 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 86046175 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.30 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. Translated by Randolf Hogan. |