Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read

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Book name:	Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (2024)
Category:	Nonfiction
Author:	Piers Paul Read
Pages:	318 pages
ISBN13:	038000321X
ISBN:	038000321X
Language:	English
Publication data:	Dec. 3, 1975, 8 a.m.

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.

About the author

Piers Paul Read

4 books

British novelist and non-fiction writer. Educated at the Benedictines' Ampleforth College, and subsequently entered St John's College, University of Cambridge where he received his BA and MA (history). Artist-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in Berlin (1963-4), Harkness Fellow, Commonwealth Fund, New York (1967-8), member of the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1971-5), member of the Literature Panel at the Arts Council, (1975-7), and Adjunct Professor of Writing, Columbia Univ… Read more