{"product_id":"story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor","title":"Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor By Marquez, Gabriel G","description":"\u003cp\u003eGabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, started his literary career with the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor \u003c\/i\u003e. . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e was Marquez''s first major work, published in a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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. Reads like an epic'' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A master storyteller''\u003ci\u003e Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Garcia Marquez is a retailer of wonders'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57817575129470,"sku":"NW9780241968604","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241968604.jpg?v=1786115489","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}