The story of a shipwrecked sailor
who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time
by Gabriel García Márquez
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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
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Biography, Sailors, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Shipwrecks, Caldas (Ship), Shipwreck victims, Survival (after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.), Shipwreck survival, Survival, Sea stories, Fiction, Marinos, Supervivencia (después de accidentes aéreos, naufragios, etc.), Travel, Ocalenie z katastrof lotniczych, morskich itp, Geography, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., Sailors, biography, Airplane crash survival, Survie après accidents d'avion, Marins, Biographies, Victimes de naufrage, Supervivencia (accidentes de aviación, naufragios, etc.), Naufragios, Survival at sea, Ships & shipbuilding, Fiction & literature classics, Velasco, luis alejandro, Caldas (ship), Sailors--biography, Sailors--colombia--biography, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, G530.v442 g37 1992People
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This translation originally published: New York : Knopf, 1986.
Translation of: Relato de un na ufrago.
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On t.p.: . . . who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time.
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