“Narrator George Newbern does an excellent job delivering the story of Alvarenga’s struggle to survive at sea…Newbern’s consistent pace and varied tone keep the compelling story going, communicating the harrowing aspects of the journey as well as Alvarenga’s inspirational will to survive…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” - AudioFile
Few indeed are those that tell of near-miraculous survival, fed by human courage, faith, strength, and intelligence. “Many are the tales of death and disaster on the high seas. “This gripping saga…unfolds like a rollicking adventure story…remarkable…A tale that is nothing if not astoundingly, engrossingly singular.” - Daily Mail (London) “The best survival book in a decade.” - Outside magazine I’ve listened to this book about 4 times. I was able to take from this story and apply to my own. We all suffer in life but Alvaranga suffered well and testified to the power of childlike faith and determination.
It puts life in perspective and allows us to see things for what they are. "This book was based on a true story which made it very influential. With illustrations, maps, and photographs throughout, 438 Days is a study of the resilience, will, ingenuity, and determination required for one man to survive fourteen months, lost at sea. He imagined a method of survival that kept his body and mind intact long enough for the Pacific Ocean to toss him up on a remote palm-studded island, where he was saved by a local couple living alone in their own Pacific Island paradise.īased 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, an all-true version of the fictional Life of Pi. But Alvarenga never failed to invent an alternative reality. He considered suicide on multiple occasions-including offering himself up to a pack of sharks. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. 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.įor fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. The storm picked up and blasted him west. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea.
On November 17, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. 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.
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