The Story of the Andes Survivors
by Piers Paul Read
appears in Nonfiction Adventure, Action & Adventure, and History.
#1 New York Times Bestseller?No 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 one?s own life and its value.? ? New RepublicSixteen Men, SeventyTwo Days, and Insurmountable Odds?the Classic Adventure of Survival in the AndesOn October 12, 1972, an Urug...
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