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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.

Translated by Randolf Hogan.

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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    A Paperback / softback by Gabriel García Márquez, Randolph Hogan

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/03/1989
      ISBN13: 9780679722052, 978-0679722052
      ISBN10: 067972205X

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      Book Synopsis
       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.

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