Relato de Un Náufrago / The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, (Paperback)

from banjo123

Luis Alejandro Velasco was a Colombian sailor who, in 1955, survived 10 days at sea on a raft after an accident, caused by naval negligence, which killed 8 others. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a young newspaper reporter, and published Velasco's story in installments to great public interest. I can ...

from Stbalbach

Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez's re-telling of a ship-wrecked sailor's trials alone on a raft at sea for ten days without food or water. It was originally published in as a series of newspaper articles in 1955, turned into a book in 1970, and translated into English by Randolf Hogan in 198...

from duck2ducks

Continuing my accidental trend of novellas featuring sailors & seamen. (Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, John Steinbeck's The Pearl...)Been meaning to read GGM for ages, but a mammoth novel can be intimidating. So when I saw this slim volume on the shelf, I picked it up. Discovering in the in...

from dbsovereign

This wondrously journalistic story about a man who conquers the sea [and lives to tell the tale] is amazing. Brutal, but somehow tremendously uplifting.

from maggiereads

Nothing is better than sitting in a cool theatre, watching a summer blockbuster; one gets a break from the heat and entertainment at the same time. Well, after viewing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the second best thing is to read a nautical tale. This week I chose The Story of a Sh...