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438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501116308 (pbk)
- ISBN: 9781501116292
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Physical Description:
274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm
regular print
print - Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015.
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Coloured map on endpapers. |
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- 27 of 29 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 29 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | 910.9164 FRA (Text) | 35151001018688 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Based on interviews with the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history and interviews with his colleagues, an epic tale of survival chronicles Salvador Alvarenga's 14 months at sea during which he imagined a method of survival that kept his body and mind intact until he was rescued. Illustrations. Map(s). - Baker & Taylor
Draws on interviews with Salvador Alvarenga and those who aided in his rescue and recovery to chronicle his fourteen months alone and adrift at sea, during which he imagined a method of survival that kept his body and mind intact until he was rescued. - Simon and Schuster
'the best survival book in a decade' (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.
On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen 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.
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 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.
