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438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea / Jonathan Franklin.

Author

Publisher	New York : Atria Books, 2015.
Copyright	©2015

Description

274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm

Edition

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

LOCATION	CALL NUMBER	VOL	BARCODE	LAST CHECKIN	STATUS
LW-Upper East Side	910.9164 FRA		30641005419499	03-09-23	AVAILABLE

Summary	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.
Subject	Alvarenga, Salvador, approximately 1977-
	Survival at sea -- Pacific Ocean.
	Shipwrecks -- Marshall Islands.
	Fishers -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Biography.
	Fishing villages -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Social life and customs.
	Fishing boats -- Mexico -- Chiapas.
	Fisheries -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History.
	Salvadorans -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Biography.
	Noncitizens -- Mexico -- Biography.
	Chiapas (Mexico) -- Biography.
Other title	Four hundred thirty eight days, an extraordinary tale of survival at sea
	Four hundred and thirty eight days, an extraordinary tale of survival at sea
	Extraordinary true story of survival at sea
ISBN	9781501116292
	1501116290

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