Free Download 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin, George Newbern, Simon & Schuster Audio
English | November 17, 2015 | ISBN: B017HYJHLE | 7 hours and 7 minutes | M4B 64 kbps | 190 Mb
438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history – as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews.
On November 17, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious storm killed his engine, and the current dragged his boat out to sea. The storm picked up and blasted him west. When he washed ashore on January 29, 2014, he had arrived in the Marshall Islands, 9,000 miles away – equivalent to traveling from New York to Moscow round trip.
For 14 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.
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