Alive: Sixteeen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds–the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes by Piers Paul Read
Alive: Sixteeen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds–the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
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Piers Paul Read
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Alive: Sixteeen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds–the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes

Piers Paul Read

398 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 sp...

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