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 seven thousand miles.
A “gripping saga,” (Daily Mail), 438 Days 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” (Booklist) 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.
288 pages.