438 Days
by Jonathan Franklin
A Salvadoran fisherman drifts 6,700 miles across the Pacific and survives fourteen months. Reported with care; a record of what the body and mind can take.
Read it if…
you want the longest survival at sea, told well.
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Skip it if…
you want technique.
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Three things you will actually use
- Routine is survival.
- Faith and imagination sustain.
- The will to live is strange and strong.
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Read the chapters after his companion dies.
Our verdict
Fourteen months adrift.
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