438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
- ISBN-10
- 1509800190
- ISBN-13
- 9781509800193
- Category
- Chiapas (Mexico)
- Pages
- 286
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-06-16
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Author
- Jonathan Franklin
Description
The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.
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- 2016-09-27
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