The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
106 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1955
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This edition
ISBN: 9780140157550
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 29 February 1996
Description
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time.
