5/13/2023 0 Comments Jonathan franklin 438 days![]() ![]() Over the next eight months, Franklin interviewed Alvarenga at his home in El Salvador nearly 30 times. “It took him months to get out of the zombie phase.” “When I first started speaking to him he was still a zombie,” Franklin told LiveOutdoors. A stringer for The Guardian at the time, Franklin speaks fluent Spanish and lived in Latin America for 18 years. He earned the book rights to Alvarenga’s story, proceeds of which he will share with the survivor. But not by one intrepid reporter. Jonathan Franklin, who’s recent book 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea, represents the first complete telling of this miraculous story.įranklin, who had previously wrote a book about the Chilean miners, said he waited nearly five months to make contact with Alvarenga. Once the news cycle had moved on to the next viral story of the day, Alvarenga was largely forgotten. ![]() Reporters clamored to reach the survivor at his hospital room only to be met with signs that said, “Leave me alone.” ![]() But Alvarenga, 36 at the time, who had survived adrift at sea in a small vessel longer than any one ever had before, wasn’t talking. ![]()
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