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438 Days : An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin (2015, Hardcover)

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"The best survival book in a decade" ( Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore. As gale force winds and ten-foot waves pummeled their small, open boat from all sides and nearly capsized them, captain Salvador Alvarenga and his crewmate cut away a two-mile-long fishing line and began a desperate dash through crashing waves as they sought the safety of port. Fourteen months later, on January 30, 2014, Alvarenga, now a hairy, wild-bearded and half-mad castaway, washed ashore on a nearly deserted island on the far side of the Pacific. He could barely speak and was unable to walk. He claimed to have drifted from Mexico, a journey of some seven thousand miles. 438 Days is the first-ever account of one of the most amazing survival stories in modern times. Based on dozens of hours of exclusive interviews with Alvarenga, his colleagues, search-and-rescue officials, the remote islanders who found him, and the medical team that saved his life, 438 Days is an unforgettable study of the resilience, will, ingenuity and determination required for one man to survive more than a year lost and adrift at sea.

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Publisher
Atria Books
ISBN-10
1501116290
ISBN-13
9781501116292
eBay Product ID (ePID)
210299459

Product Key Features

Book Title
438 Days : an Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Emigration & Immigration, Adventurers & Explorers, Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Australia & Oceania, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Fishing, Ships & Shipbuilding / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Travel, Transportation, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
Author
Jonathan Franklin
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Dewey Edition
23
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This riveting adventure has us in its grip, spellbound and eager to know more about the mysterious Salvador Alvarenga...His story of resilience, ingenuity, and grit is an unforgettable true-life adventure., This riveting adventure has us in its grip, spellbound and eager to know more about the mysterious Salvador Alvarengaâ€¦His story of resilience, ingenuity, and grit is an unforgettable true-life adventure., Jonathan Franklin is an American journalist, but it is with a novelist's eye for detail, rather than a reporter's matter-of-factness, that he gives this gripping saga the chronicle it deserves...it unfolds like a rollicking adventure story...remarkable...reminded me of both Yann Martel's Life Of Pi and William Golding's Pincher Martin , yet tells a tale that is nothing if not astoundingly, engrossingly singular.
Lccn
2015-030740
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
910.9164
Lc Classification Number
G525.F66 2015
Copyright Date
2015

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A page turner! An agonizing but enthralling story of physical and mental survival in the open ocean with stimulating facts from professionals across trades of survival, oceanography, etc.
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