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Stowaway

Autor Carol Cordoba
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 dec 1995
Nicolas Cordoba has attempted the incredible -- smuggling his way into the United States in a submerged airpocket above the rudder of an oil tanker. Read the extraordinary account of an ordinary man, his deprived background in Colombia, the hopes and dreams that led him to attempt so dangerous an entry into the land of plenty and how his dream turned into the nightmare of incarceration for drug smuggling -- a crime for which he claims complete innocence.
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ISBN-13: 9781558851665
ISBN-10: 1558851666
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 146 x 224 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Arte Publico Press

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The remarkable, true story of Nicolas Cordoba's desperate journey to reach American soil by stowing away in the rudder trunk of on oil tanker begins with his adolescence in Colombia. A prisoner of poverty, he develops one ingenious scheme after another to survive on the mean streets of destitution. When a daring way out occurs to him, Nicolas intrepidly executes his dangerous plan. But little does he know that the tanker he chooses is headed for the frigid waters of New York Harbor instead of balmy Miami. After having braved cold, hunger and the blades of the propeller, the luckless stowaway is discovered by police scuba divers. But when he is arrested, the charge is for a much greater crime than illegal immigration. The dream of reaching the United States becomes a nightmare as the memoir follows Nicolas' progress through the American system of justice, and the onslaught of media headlines.