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| Original Title: | Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors |
| ISBN: | 038000321X (ISBN13: 9780380003211) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Chile Argentina Andes Mountains |
Piers Paul Read
Paperback | Pages: 318 pages Rating: 4.11 | 62349 Users | 1257 Reviews
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable... This is their story—one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.
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| Title | : | Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors |
| Author | : | Piers Paul Read |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 318 pages |
| Published | : | December 3rd 1975 by Avon (first published 1974) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Adventure. History. Survival. Biography. Travel. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Ratings: 4.11 From 62349 Users | 1257 ReviewsCriticize Of Books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
When you know from the beginning of a book that a plane full of young Rugby players crash lands in the snowy Andes mountains, and yet somehow some of those boys survive for weeks and weeks - you know it's not going to be a pretty story. And it's not. It's survival at its grittiest core, what do we humans really need to stay alive? Their story is told in an incredibly straightforward, almost newspaper-story type narrative. There's no real emotion. There's no flowery speech. It's just as true of aThis was the frightening yet amazing true story of a team of rugby players trying to survive in the mountains against the dangers present. Only sixteen survived and were able to tell their story.
This is not a story. This is an account, a confession, a testimony but this is a not a story.After finishing reading the last page this morning, I've given this book a great deal of thought and, personal feelings aside, when asked to rate someone's REAL struggles in life I can't rate it anything less than the highest mark. These people went though horrors, not all of them survived. This REALLY HAPPENED and it promises you an unadulterated and very personal view of survival with all of its ugly
I know, I know. Am I on a cannibal kick or something? I just finished this book on the Donner Party a few weeks ago, now Im reading Alive AND Miracle in the Andes? (Ill also throw in Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, though I read that a few years back). ...Im sorry, what can I say? Im hungry, okay? In the coronavirus chaos, its a dog eat dog world. Ill start off by saying that this is rather more satisfying a read than the Donner Party book, the Indifferent Stars Abovenot because the
Wow, what an incredible story. I had seen the movie a while back and thought I knew what happened, but the movie doesn't depict half of what went on up there in the Andes. And the characters and their thoughts and struggles during their 70+ days out there is very intense. Along with what really happened from the parent's point of view with trying to get the gov't to send search and rescue people out, because nobody believed there could be anyone still alive, much less 16 of them. And what the
I was a little obsessed with the movie Survive!, the first version of this story when I was a young girl while my younger brother was appalled. Ive also seen documentaries and the newer version of the movie Alive in the 90s. Now, finally I've read the book! I'm glad I did! What a shocking story of survival, courage, endurance, and spirituality. This book is tragic but uplifting in many ways as ".... the ordeal in the mountain had changed their attitude towards life...left only with what they
If you could read just 10 books in rest of your life,this book is worthy of being one of them!This is a book based on reality that shook the conscience of the world in 1970s and even after almost 40 years past the incident,the book makes such a compelling reading!A football team hires a chartered Plane to play a friendly match across the Andes,due to co-piolt's mistake the plane crashes and our story begins,how they managed to survive is one of the all time great stories of them all!They don't
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