The Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor Av Gabriel Garcia Marquez

<p>Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i>, started his literary career with the publication of <i>The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor </i>. . . <br><br><b>''On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia''</b><br><br>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. <br><br><i>The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor</i> was Marquez''s first major work, published in a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.<br><br>''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