[P.D.F Download] 438 Days: An Extraordinary True

<b>Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by <i>Outside Magazine</i>,<i> 438 Days</i> is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.</b><br /><br />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 eighty miles offshore. As gale force winds and ten-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.<br /> <br /> 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