438 Days by Franklin J
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.
Jonathan Franklin has lived in Chile for over fifteen years, the last twelve as The Guardian (UK) correspondent for Chile. He was a member of the Rescue Team at the site of the Chilean mining catastrophe, and his dispatches appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Observer (UK), and The Sydney Morning Herald. He captured exclusive footage for ABC News, CNN International, Univision, and the Discovery Channel as a cinematographer at the mine. Franklin is fluent in Spanish and has covered events ranging from Augusto Pinochet's arrest to the inner workings of the cocaine trade throughout his years in South America. His work has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Marie Claire, Playboy, and a variety of other publications. Franklin travels throughout Latin America as cofounder of www.AddictVillage.com, producing reporting for magazines and newspapers around the world. Franklin, an American who was raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, came to Chile in 1994 with his wife, Toty Garfe, and their six daughters, and his investigative reporting has been used by ABC's Nightline, CBS's 60 Minutes, A&E, the BBC, and several documentary productions throughout the world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781501116308 |
| ISBN 10 | 1501116304 |
| Title | 438 Days |
| Author | Franklin J |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2016-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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