{"product_id":"9781611451122","title":"Alone: The True Story of the Man Who Fought the Sharks, Waves, and Weather of the Pacific and Won","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the incredible true story of one man’s heroic battle against impossible odds, a tale of pain and anguish, bravery and utter solitude, a tale that ends in a victory not only over the implacable ocean but over himself as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of forty-five, Gerard d’Aboville set out to row across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the United States. Taking his rowboat the \u003ci\u003eSector\u003c\/i\u003e, which had a living compartment thirty-one inches high, containing a bunk, one-burner stove, and a ham radio, d’Aboville made his way across an ocean 6,200 miles wide. Though he rowed twelve hours a day, battled cyclones and headwinds that kept him in one place for days at a time, was capsized dozens of times forty-foot waves that hit him like cannonballs, he never quit; even when he was trapped upside down inside his cabin for almost two hours while nearly depleting his oxygen trying to right the boat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne hundred and thirty-four days after his departure, d’Aboville arrived in the little fishing village of Ilwaco, Washington, leaving his body bruised and battered, and weighing thirty-seven pounds less. This is his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036602614000,"sku":"9781611451122","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611451122_p0.jpg?v=1763840729","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611451122","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}