Alive

Alive

By - Piers Paul Read
Floor - Floor 4
Published - Avon Books, New York, N.Y., ©2002
ISBN 10 - 0060778660
ISBN 13 - 9780060778668
Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Aircraft accidents
Shelf No - 6
Call Number - 982.6 PIE
Physical Description - xiv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Book Information
On 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 -- and ultimately found it. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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