García Márquez, Gabriel  (1928-2014) <br/><br/>
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 Gárcia Márquez 
 - New York  : Alfred A. Knopf  , c1986 
 - 106 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Spanish to English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0394548108 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Shipwreck victims---Biography<br/>Shipwreck survival
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS 910.4 GAR