Jonathan Franklin has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 82 ratings. The most-rated is 438 Days.
438 Days
Summary
438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history - as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews.
On November 17, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious storm killed his engine, and the current dragged his boat out to sea. The storm picked up and blasted him west. When he washed ashore on January 29, 2014, he had arrived in the Marshall Islands, 9,000 miles away - equivalent to traveling from New York to Moscow round trip.
For 14 months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes.
He considered suicide on multiple occasions - including offering himself up to a pack of sharks. But Alvarenga never failed to invent an alternative reality. He imagined a method of survival that kept his body and mind intact long enough for the Pacific Ocean to toss him up on a remote, palm-studded island, where he was saved by a local couple living alone in their own Pacific Island paradise.
Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life, and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival, an all-true version of the fictional Life of Pi. 438 Days is a study of the resilience, will, ingenuity, and determination required for one man to survive 14 months lost at sea.
©2015 Jonathan Franklin (P)2015 Simon & Schuster
33 Men
Summary
Having had unparalleled access to the Chilean mine disaster, award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of a remarkable story of human endurance, survival, and historic heroism. 33 Men is the groundbreaking, authoritative account of the Chilean mine disaster, one of the longest human entrapments in history. Rushing to the scene when the miners were discovered, Franklin obtained a coveted "Rescue Team" pass and reported directly from the front lines of the rescue operation, beyond police controls, for six weeks. Based on more than 110 intimate interviews with the miners, their families, and the rescue team, Franklin's narrative captures the remarkable story of these men and women, in details shocking, beautiful, comedic, and heroic. Gripping and raw, with never-before-revealed details, 33 Men is a true story that reads like a thriller.
©2011 Jonathan Franklin (P)2011 Penguin
Salvador
Summary
El sábado 17 de noviembre de 2012 Salvador Alvarenga y su compañero Ezequiel Córdoba se hicieron a la mar para ir a pescar tiburones en su pequeña embarcación. Había aviso de tormenta pero Alvarenga era un experto pescador que no se amedrentaba por nada. Cuando les alcanzó el temporal se encontraban lejos de la costa y un fallo del motor acabó imposibilitando su regreso. Catorce meses después, el 30 de enero de 2014, con el pelo largo, barba poblada y sin poder apenas hablar ni caminar, Salvador llegó a la playa del atolón Ebon en las Islas Marshall, a siete mil millas de donde partió con su bote. Gracias a una dieta a base de pescado crudo, tortugas, pequeños pájaros, agua de lluvia y su propia orina, pudo sobrevivir en alta mar. Por su parte, Ezequiel, quien se negó a tomar esos alimentos, murió pocas semanas después de la tormenta que les convirtió en náufragos. Fascinado por la historia, el periodista estadounidense Jonathan Franklin entrevistó en numerosas ocasiones al pescador y a todas las personas que fueron testigos de su aparición en las Islas Marshall, y también a aquellos que le acompañaron en los días posteriores, durante su hospitalización. De todas estas conversaciones surge este heroico relato sobre la resistencia humana, seguramente el más asombroso de nuestros días. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. NOTA: Al comprar este título, el material de referencia estará disponible en su sección de Biblioteca junto con el audio.
©2015; 2016 Jonathan Franklin; Isabel Murillo (de la traducción), Centro Libros PAPF, S.L.U. (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
Two Owls at Eton
Summary
Two Owls at Eton - a classic British tale of eccentricity, education and owls. Witty, poignant and nostalgic, this best-selling memoir continues to find new fans and delight young and old alike. Now available for the first time in audiobook. When Jonathan Franklin takes two baby tawny owls back to Eton, he has no idea how chaotic the following months will be. The birds show no respect for Etonian routine and tradition. They trash his room and rule his daily life and are known throughout the school as 'Dum' and 'Dee'. Although a keen naturalist, Jonathan struggles to understand his charges and to find the right food for them: at first meat and feathers, soon mice and rats. Even so, they nearly die of malnutrition on two occasions. Frantic, he searches for natural food. How to keep them alive is a constant worry. He watches them grow from ugly balls of fluff into beautiful adults, every change of plumage and behaviour noted. They play truant; they shock others and lead Jonathan into hilarious adventures. They charm his housemaster and everybody who meets them. Best of all is seeing them flying about over those famous playing fields. All the time, Jonathan works to train them for eventual return to the wild. Will that be possible? He is never sure whether he will succeed.
©1960 Jonathan Franklin (P)2018 Bonnier