| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
274 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- The birdman -- A year at sea -- Another slow death -- The rooster -- Who is this wildman? -- Found but lost -- Attacked by cockroaches -- Call of the sea -- Epilogue: A journey of dignity. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Undocumented Immigrants. (DNLM)D000069756
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Noncitizens -- Mexico -- Biography.
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Noncitizens. (OCoLC)fst00967153
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Pacific Ocean. (OCoLC)fst01243528
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Survival at sea. (OCoLC)fst01761961
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Salvadorans. (OCoLC)fst01104388
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Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
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Fishers -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Biography.
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Fishers. (OCoLC)fst00926174
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Mexico -- Chiapas.
(OCoLC)fst01202769
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Fisheries. (OCoLC)fst00926051
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Shipwrecks. (OCoLC)fst01116638
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Chiapas (Mexico) -- Biography.
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Fishing boats -- Mexico -- Chiapas.
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Fishing boats. (OCoLC)fst00926699
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Marshall Islands. (OCoLC)fst01215147
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Fishing villages -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Social life and customs.
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Shipwrecks -- Marshall Islands.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| Subject |
Salvadorans -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Biography.
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Illegal immigration -- Mexico
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Fisheries -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History.
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Alvarenga, Salvador, approximately 1977-
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Alvarenga, Salvador, approximately 1977- (OCoLC)fst01923401
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Local Subject |
Undocumented immigration -- Mexico
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| Subject |
Survival at sea -- Pacific Ocean.
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| Added Title |
Four hundred and thirty eight days, an extraordinary tale of survival at sea |
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Four hundred thirty eight days, an extraordinary tale of survival at sea |
| ISBN |
9781501116292 (hardcover) |
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1501116290 (hardcover) |
