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

Franklin, Jonathan 1964- (author.).

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. Print run 75,000.

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  • ISBN: 1501116290
  • ISBN: 9781501116292
  • Physical Description: 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
    regular print
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  • Edition: First Atria Books Hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2015.

Content descriptions

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 wildman? -- Found but lost -- Ambushed by cockroaches -- Call of the sea.

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  • 17 of 18 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Altoona Area Public Library 910.9164 FRA 1 (Text) 33240004860220 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bangor Public Library 910.45 FRA (Text) 75011000244845 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Boone Area Library ALV (Text) 33249022401644 Biography Available -
Ellwood City Area Public Library 92 Franklin (Text)
Memorial: Memorial Books : Carolyn L. Battaglia Given By Belinda Shiapak.
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Emmaus Public Library 910.9 FRAN (Text) 36446001906152 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 910.9164 FRANKLIN (Text) 35740634879118 Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 910.9164 Franklin Advent Surviv (Text) 39427103066023 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 05/08/2024
Lower Macungie Library BIO ALVARENGA (Text) 33400001295347 Adult Biography Available -
Mifflin Community Library ALV (Text) 33249021969922 Biography Available -
Northern Cambria Public Library BIO ALV (Text) 31814530019105 NCMM Biography Available -
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