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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
    Release Year
    2016
    ISBN
    9781501116308

    About this product

    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Atria Books
    ISBN-10
    1501116304
    ISBN-13
    9781501116308
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    221985077

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    438 Days : an Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
    Number of Pages
    288 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Adventurers & Explorers, Fishing
    Publication Year
    2016
    Genre
    Nature, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
    Author
    Jonathan Franklin
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    0.7 in
    Item Weight
    8.7 Oz
    Item Length
    8.4 in
    Item Width
    5.5 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    Dewey Edition
    23
    Reviews
    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 Alvarenga…His story of resilience, ingenuity, and grit is an unforgettable true-life adventure., As this old world pursues its endless journey round the sun, many are the tales of death and disaster on the high seas. Few indeed are those that tell of near-miraculous survival, fed by human courage, faith, strength and intelligence. This is one such., 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.
    Dewey Decimal
    910.9164
    Synopsis
    Declared "the best survival book in a decade" by Outside Magazine , 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. On November 17, 2012, two men 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. A "gripping saga," ( Daily Mail ), 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 not only "an intense, immensely absorbing read" ( Booklist ) but 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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