# The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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- Book: [The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor](https://www.bookquiver.com/gabriel-garcia-noblejas/the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor) ([The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gabriel-garcia-noblejas/the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor.md))
- Authors: [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://www.bookquiver.com/gabriel-garcia-noblejas)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-861-1
- Published: 2014-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia.' In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas , a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Márquez retells the survivor's amazing tale, from his loneliness and thirst, to his determination to survive. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was Márquez's first major, and controversial, work, published in Colombian newspaper El Espectador , in 1955. It is being re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.