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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-10039701001X
ISBN-139780397010011
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038298969
Product Key Features
Publication Year1974
TopicLatin America / South America, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Book TitleAlive : the Story of the Andes Survivors
LanguageEnglish
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, History
AuthorPiers Paul Read
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
LCCN73-022269
Dewey Edition18
Dewey Decimal918.2/6
Synopsis"A classic in the literature of survival." --Newsweek On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snow-peaked Andes Mountains. Ten weeks later, only 16 of the 45 passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and scarcely any hope of a rescue. They survived by protecting and helping one another, and coming to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help--and ultimately found it.