THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR

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.