Name: alive,sixteen men, seventy-two days, and insurmountable odds--the classic adventure of survival in the and (in English)
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Author: Piers Paul Read
ISBN: 9780060778668

portada alive,sixteen men, seventy-two days, and insurmountable odds--the classic adventure of survival in the and (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Piers Paul Read

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.7 x 2.9 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN

0060778660

ISBN13

9780060778668

Synopsis "alive,sixteen men, seventy-two days, and insurmountable odds--the classic adventure of survival in the and (in English)"

#1 New York Times Bestseller"No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down.... There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one's own life and its value." -- New RepublicSixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the AndesOn October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came 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. A tale of astonishing bravery and adventure, Alive is much more than a survival story, it is a breathtaking saga of human courage The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Piers Paul Read

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(Buckinghamshire, 1941). Autor de obras de ficción, reportajes, historia, biografía y periodismo. Al principio de su carrera, Read escribió una serie de guiones para cine y televisión. Es más conocido por Alive. The Story of the Andes Survivors se publicó en 1974, pero ha ganado una serie de premios literarios por sus novelas.

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