Джонатан Франклин – лучшие книги

Как долго можно выжить в открытом море, без средств связи, еды и пресной воды?

Неделю? Месяц? Год?...

Опытный рыбак на акул Альваренга и его помощник 22-летний мексиканец Кордоба отправились ловить акул, но попали в жуткий шторм. Мотор вышел из строя и их лодку унесло в открытый океан. Без еды, снастей и пресной воды им только и оставалось как дрейфовать на волнах и надеяться на чудо…

А ровно через 438 дней жители атолла Эбон, входящего в состав Маршалловых островов и находящемся в 10 000 километров от Мексики, заметили рядом со своим жилищем худого мужчину в разодранной одежде и обросшего густой бородой...

Эта история так поразительна, что некоторые до сих пор не верят в ее подлинность. Но правда порой оказывается гораздо невероятнее реальности.

The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway--COVID-19--days before the world shut down in March 2020. This riveting narrative thriller takes readers behind the scenes with passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS PAUL TORDAY PRIZE
Amidst the greens of the Amazon
and the flames of its destruction
they tried

‘Red Road Green beautifully and brutally captures the tough era when settlers and cattle ranchers plunged into the forests of the Brazilian Amazon...’
JOHN HEMMING – DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 1975 TO 1996.

‘The description of the forest with all its beauty and wilderness is incredibly vivid and moving...’
MAIZA LUIZA RONDON –
GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF MARSHALL CANDIDO RONDON, FOUNDER OF THE INDIAN PROTECTION SERVICE NOW FUNAI.

‘A thrilling and timely book about a critically important subject...’
ROBIN HANBURY-TENISON –
PART FOUNDER AND NOW
PRESIDENT OF SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL.

‘The contrast between the nobleness of purpose of some, and the darker side of human nature of others, reminds me of Graham Greene.’
NICHOLAS READE, SÃO PAULO. AMAZON, BRAZIL 1965. The government offers land and money to those brave enough to travel 2000 kilometres to make a new life in the jungle. A brave young woman, Idenea, and her family are given a 50 hectare plot and begin clearing 40 metre high trees. Malaria is rampant; Indians watch; life is hard. When her baby is stolen, she is forced to flee in search of her child. Nearby, is an unlikely ally. Bobby, an ex British soldier, has turned to ranching to hide from the demons of his past. Meeting in the Perfect Peace Motel they fall in love. He tries to protect her from slavery and his troubled history. Full of reckless youth, they build a life together. But when political violence strikes can their love survive?

On 17th November, 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 carried him West, deeper into the heart of the Pacific Ocean. Alvarenga would not touch solid ground again for 14 months. When he was washed ashore on January 30th, 2014, he had drifted over 9,000 miles.
Three dozen cruise ships and container vessels passed nearby. Not one stopped for the s