The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Life Raft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a Nati... Summary
Gabriel García Márquez

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Life Raft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a Nati... Summary

"The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the story of a man who is hopelessly lost at sea but miraculously survives for ten days without food or water and withstands the rough waters of the Caribbean and the relentless heat of the merciless sun. Luis Alejandro Velasco was a twenty-year-old sailor in the Colombian Navy who was stationed in Mobile, Alabama, for eight months with his crew...

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