Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (1974-04)
ISBN: 039701001X
EAN: 9780397010011
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 352 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 59080300
Condition: Collectable Very Good
Comments: 1ST EDITION. A HARDBACK BOOK WITH A DUST JACKET. EARLY PRINT. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. SHIPS RAPIDLY WITH A FREE TRACKING IN A GREAT PACKAGING. AIR MAIL WILL BE USED FOR OVERSEAS.

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In October 1972 an aircraft carrying a party of Uruguayan rugby players and their friends took off from Argentina to fly over the Andes to Chile. It crashed in the mountains in dense cloud, and some of the 45 passengers were killed. The survivors soon realized, by listening to their transistor radio, that the search party had been called off because nobody could be expected to survive at that altitude in so savage a climate. As the days passed, weakened by starvation and sub-zero temperatures, they had to face the inescapable truth - that, in order to survive, they must eat the flesh of their dead companions. How these young men finally sent out "expeditionaries" to brave the Andean peaks and how, after appalling hardships, they achieved rescue and returned to civilization 72 days after the crash, is recounted in this tale of human courage and triumph. The author is a novelist whose books include "The Free Frenchman" and "On the Third Day".

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