The Story of A Shipwrecked Sailor.

GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.

The Story of A Shipwrecked Sailor.

First Edition of The Story of A Ship-Wrecked Sailor

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

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First edition of this “luminous narrative that rivals the most remarkable stories of man’s struggles against the sea”(Philadelphia Inquirer). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman. Jacket illustration by Douglas Fraser. Translated from the Spanish by Randolph 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.

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