Pedro Luis Serrano was a Spanish sailor who was supposed to have been
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for seven or eight years in the sixteenth century on a small
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. Details of the story differ, but the most common version has him shipwrecked on a small island in the
Caribbean
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off the coast of
Nicaragua
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in 1520s. He had no access to fresh water and lived off the blood and flesh of sea turtles and birds and was insane by the time he was rescued.
The tale of Serrano may have been loosely based on the historical case of "Maestre Joan", who stranded on cay of what is now named
Serrana Bank
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in 1528, and was rescued eight years later.
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The name Serrana Bank first appears on a
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map of 1545. Other versions place the events in the
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off the coast of
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as late as the 1540s. There is some doubt about the historicity of the tale. The earliest known source is
Garcilaso de la Vega's ''
Comentarios Reales de los Incas
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'' (1609).
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References
External links
Trivia Library feature on Serrano
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16th-century Spanish people