438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
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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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Jonathan Franklin. (2015). 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea. Atria Books.
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- 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. - reviews
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In an amazing story of endurance, ingenuity, and pure tenacity, Franklin (33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners) relates how Salvadoran fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga survived adrift on the Pacific Ocean for 438 days. On November 17, 2012, Alvarenga and his first-mate Ezequiel Cordoba were caught in a fierce storm off Mexico's southwest coast and swept out to sea after their boat's motor failed. Based on author interviews with Alvarenga, his friends and family, scientists, U.S. Coast Guard rescue experts, diplomats, and others involved in the saga, Franklin presents a gripping narrative detailing how Alvarenga survived. Over the next 14 months, while drifting thousands of miles across the Pacific, Alvarenga caught and ate raw fish, sharks, birds and turtles; collected and drank rainwater; and scavenged through Pacific trash he encountered. Cordoba died three months into the voyage after refusing to eat anything except turtle; he was buried at sea. On January 29, 2014, Alvarenga beached his boat in the Marshall Islands, 6,500 miles away. As one expert summed up this feat, "[Alvarenga] was extremely unlucky and terribly fortunate at the same time." VERDICT This book will thrill readers of true-life adventures and survival.--Margaret Atwater-Singer, Univ. of Evansville Lib., IN
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Stranded at sea for months on end with no salvation in sight, Salvador Alvarenga turned to anything he could get his hands on to survive. But in addition to his prowess in hunting birds and catching fish, his ability to escape in his mind played an enormous role in his feat of surviving 14 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean, as recounted by reporter Franklin in this harrowing tale. As a fisherman off the coast of Mexico, Alvarenga had faced his share of close calls at sea. But when a storm blew him and his mate miles out from shore and their motor quit, it was the beginning of what would become the longest known voyage by a survivor in a small boat, totaling 9,000 miles. Franklin sprinkles the story with expert opinions to give it depth and context, but the most striking details are those offered by Alvarenga himself about the challenges he faced day in and day out. A spectacular triumph of grit over adversity, 438 Days is an intense, immensely absorbing read.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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