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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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| Title | : | Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors |
| Author | : | Piers Paul Read |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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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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.Rating Of Books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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In October of 1972, a chartered plane carrying 45 passengers and crew left Uruguay to travel to Chile. A majority of the passengers were made up of young men who were part of an amateur rugby team going to Chile for a game. Others included family and friends. Over the rugged Andes, the pilot made a fatal error, and the plane crashed into the side of a mountain, flinging parts of the tail section, fuselage, wing, rudder and even some passengers out over the desolate landscape. The survivors were,Whenever I can't drag myself to the gym or finish some project, I think of these men crawling out of the Andes fueled by "matchstick pieces of flesh"
Famous story of the Uruguayan rugby team that survived ten weeks in the Andes, largely because they ate the dead passengers.This is not a subtle book, nor does it bother with nuance. It's a fast, vivid, and compelling read. It shows its age mostly in its sexism. Women are nurturing and irrational and must be humored and coddled; men are brave and active, and when they're irrational, they know better; probably it's part of this same gender definition that Read always refers to the survivors as
I had to sneak this from the school library as a young teen and read it since my parents wouldn't allow me to watch the film- until they caught me with this (good) book and finally relented...the film was actually MORE disturbing than the book, IMO. (Also, as a side note-- I forgot that it stars Ethan Hawke!)--Jen from Quebec :0)
One of the survivors in this book is quoted as saying that his experience of surviving following a plane crash in the Andes Mountains was the greatest experience of his life. All of the survivors suffered from severe cold, lack of food, and some had injuries,or infections, The test was severe, and yet, this young man could say that it was his greatest exprience. I think whenever we prove to ourselves how much we can handle, we grow and we can look back and say that the hardship, whatever it was,
This book is one of those novels that you will never forget. It is a phenomenal writing piece based on a rugby team whose plane crashed when flying over the Andes Mountains. They were stuck in these mountains for over ten weeks. Forty five passengers and the crew were on the plane before it crashed, and only sixteen of the passengers left the mountain alive. This book will go down as one of my all-time favorite novels in the entire world. Since it is a survival story, at any point in time
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