| ID | 017748 |
| Call Number | 863.64/MAR |
| Title Proper | Story of a shipwrecked sailor |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia ; Hogan, Randolph (Tr.) |
| Publication | Gurgaon, Penguin Books, 1996. |
| Description | ix, 106p Blue spine |
| Note | 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. Marquez retells the survivor's amazing tale of endurance, from his loneliness and thirst to his determination to survive. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was Marquez's first major work, published in a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970. The story of Velasco on his raft, his battle with sharks over a succulent fish, his hallucinations, his capture of a seagull which he was unable to eat, his subsequent droll rescue, has all the grip of archetypal myth. |
| Standard Number | 9780340157550 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.199(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 863.64 |
| Key Words | Survival ; IBDP ; World literature ; Spanish literature ; Nobel Prize Winner for literature ; Caldas (Ship) ; Velasco, Luis Alejandro. ; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. ; Caribbean Sea Destroyers Caldas (Ship) Accidents 1955 Survivors' experiences Texts |