438 days [CD] : an extraordinary true story of survival at sea

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Title:

Author:

Franklin, Jonathan, 1964-

Added Author:

Newbern, George, 1964- narrator.

Publication Date:

2015

Publication Information:

[New York] : Simon and Schuster Audio, p2015.

Physical Description:

6 compact discs (7 hr., 15 min. ) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

ISBN:

9781442396036

Abstract:

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.

General Note:

Unabridged version.

Performers:

Read by George Newbern.

Personal Subject:

Alvarenga, Salvador.

Subject Term:

Survival at sea -- Pacific Ocean.

Shipwrecks -- Marshall Islands.

Fishers -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Biography.

Fishing villages -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Social life and customs.

Fishing boats -- Mexico -- Chiapas.