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Title Statement | 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. |
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Series | Vintage International (Series) |
Author | García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928- |
Publication | New York: Vintage Books, 1989, c1986. |
Edition | 1st Vintage International ed. |
Extent of Item | ix, 106 p. |
ISBN | 067972205X (pbk.) 9780679722052 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 385009 |
General Notes | Translation of: Relato de un náufrago. Translation originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. |
Summary | Chronicles Columbian Navy crewman Luis Alejandro Velasco's ten days drifting in the Caribbean after falling overboard the destroyer "Caldas" in 1955. |
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By Topic | Shipwreck survival--Caribbean Sea |
Sailors--Biography--Colombia | |
By Name | Velasco, Luis Alejandro |