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438 days : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea  Cover Image Book Book

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501116292 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: 274 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Map on lining papers.
Formatted Contents Note:
The sharkers -- A stormy tribe -- Ambushed at sea -- Search and no rescue -- Adrift -- Hunter gatherers -- A fight for life -- Swimming with sharks -- Encounters with a whale -- On the road to nowhere -- A year at sea -- Another slow death -- The rooster -- Who is this wild man? -- Found but lost -- Attacked by cockroaches -- Call of the sea.
Subject: Alvarenga, Salvador, approximately 1977.
Fisheries > Mexico > Chiapas > History.
Fishers > Mexico > Chiapas > Biography.
Fishing boats > Mexico > Chiapas.
Fishing villages > Mexico > Chiapas > Social life and customs.
Illegal aliens > Mexico > Biography.
Salvadorans > Mexico > Chiapas > Biography.
Shipwrecks > Marshall Islands.
Survival at sea > Pacific Ocean.
Chiapas (Mexico) > Biography.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Jonathan Franklin regularly reports for The Guardian, VICE, and Esquire. He also works with the team at Retro Report producing documentaries broadcast by The New York Times. Based in Santiago, Chile, and Manhattan, Franklin reports on Latin America. Franklin's previous book 33 Men, the exclusive account of Chilean miners trapped nearly a kilometer underground, became a national bestseller in the US and UK and was translated into nineteen languages. He can be contacted @FranklinBlog and JonathanFranklin.com.


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