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

Main Author:	García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	New York : A.A. Knopf, 1986.
Subjects:	Velasco, Luis Alejandro. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.

Item Description:	Translation of: Relato de un náufrago.
Physical Description:	106 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0394548108
Author Notes:	Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography)