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In 1972, a plane crashed in the Andes mountains, if anyone survived they were hopelessly lost in the worst place on earth to survive.
After eight days of heavy snowfall, the rescue party was abandoned. In 1972, after eight days of heavy snowfall over the Andes mountains, the search for survivors of a missing Fairchild aeroplane ceased. Even if the plane could be found, the likeliness of the forty-five passengers and crew being found alive was remote. Yet ten weeks later two emaciated men fell to their knees at the sight of a Chilean peasant tending his cattle in a remote Andean valley. After these two men finally persuaded the incredulous authorities that they really were survivors of the missing Fairchild plane, they led a rescue team to the site of the crash, the remaining fourteen survivors and a tale of horrific bravery.
Putting to rest the rumours and criticism the survivors came into, Alive exposes the inescapable truth and stark courageousness of how they lived to tell their story. Weakened by starvation, extreme cold, and by the awful knowledge that the search had been called off, the survivors had to face the torturous reality of their situation: to live, they must eat the flesh of their dead companions...
'It is inconceivable to me that this story could have been better told...a masterpiece of narrative'
Graham Greene
'Thunderous entertainment...a classic human adventure...a narrative of terrific and enduring significance'
New York Times
Non-fiction
ISBN 0099432498
£6.99
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Description du livre Softcover. Etat : New. Product DescriptionA classic in the literature of survival. -NewsweekOn October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snow-peaked Andes Mountains. Ten weeks later, only 16 of the 45 passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the planes fuselage without food and scarcely any hope of a rescue. They survived by protecting and helping one another, and coming 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.ReviewA classic in the literature of survival. - NewsweekA great book . . . . an incredible saga. Reads accomplishment in recording a struggle both physical and spiritual is superb. - Philadelphia InquirerA chilling tale. Will involve the reader as thoroughly as the best adventure novel. A book of real and lasting value. - Rolling StoneSuperbflawless. A testimonial to the durability and determination of young men who might have chosen to die and simply would not. - Detroit Free PressA masterpiece.It is inconceivable to me that this story could have been better told. - Graham GreeneNo 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 ones own life and its value. - New RepublicThunderous entertainment.A classic human adventure.A narrative of terrific and enduring significance. - New York TimesTragic, heartwarming, inspiring, shocking, terrifying, and true. - Columbus DispatchAn adventure story to rival those of Hillary and Tensing, Thor Heyerdahl, or Jacques Cousteau. - Chicago TribuneA book you wont soon forget. - Cleveland PressAn adventure both physical and spiritual.Mr. Read was chosen by the survivors to write a full and balanced account of their ordeal, and he has done so with conspicuous success. - The New YorkerFrom the Back CoverOn 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.About the AuthorPaul Piers Read is the author of numerous, critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including A Patriot in Berlin (1996), Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl (1993), On the Third Day (1989), and A Season in the West (1989). Mr. Read lives in London. N° de réf. du vendeur DADAX038000321X
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