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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 / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Randolph Hogan.

by García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014.

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Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1989, c1986.

910.09163 G215s

Velasco, Luis Alejandro.

Shipwreck survival.

9780679722052 (pbk.)

Relato de un náufrago. English

1st Vintage International ed.

ix, 106 p. : map ; 20 cm.

Translation of: Relato de un náufrago.

This translation originally published: New York : Knopf, 1986.

"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."--Back cover.

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