Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, “438 Days” is the true story of the man who survived 14 months in a small boat drifting 7,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.

On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent* storm ambushed* them as they were fishing 80 miles offshore. As gale force winds and 10-foot waves pummeled their small, open boat from all sides and nearly capsized* them, captain Salvador Alvarenga and his crewmate cut away a two-mile-long fishing line and began a desperate dash through crashing waves as they sought the safety of port.

Fourteen months later, on January 30, 2014, Alvarenga, now a hairy, wild-bearded and half-mad castaway*, washed ashore on a nearly deserted island on the far side of the Pacific. He could barely speak and was unable to walk. He claimed to have drifted from Mexico, a journey of some 7,000 miles.

A gripping saga, the book is the first-ever account of one of the most amazing survival stories in modern times. Based on dozens of hours of exclusive interviews with Alvarenga, his colleagues, search-and-rescue officials, the remote islanders who found him, and the medical team that saved his life, “438 Days” is not only an intense, immensely absorbing read but an unforgettable study of the resilience*, will, ingenuity* and determination required for one man to survive more than a year lost and adrift at sea.

(SD-Agencies)