Santiago, an old lonely fisherman whom others consider unlucky, will fight his greatest and perhaps last battle with the great marlin off the coast of Cuba. He will use all his skill, mind, and art. The battle will last three days and Santiago will win. When, late on the third night, he enters the harbor, only the white bone of the huge fish that the sharks devoured along the way will be floating next to his small boat. An important moment in world literature, one of the unsurpassed works of the great Nobel laureate writer, perhaps the greatest text ever written about the relationship between man and nature. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]