Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

ISBN-13: 9780380003211 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2002 / 416 str.

Piers Paul Read

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"A classic in the literature of survival." - Newsweek

"A great book . . . . an incredible saga. Read's accomplishment in recording a struggle both physical and spiritual is superb." - Philadelphia Inquirer

"A chilling tale.... Will involve the reader as thoroughly as the best adventure novel. A book of real and lasting value." - Rolling Stone

"Superb...flawless.... A testimonial to the durability and determination of young men who might have chosen to die and simply would not." - Detroit Free Press

"A masterpiece...It is inconceivable to me that this story could have been better told." - Graham Greene

"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 Republic

"Thunderous entertainment...A classic human adventure...A narrative of terrific and enduring significance." - New York Times

"Tragic, heartwarming, inspiring, shocking, terrifying, and true." - Columbus Dispatch

"An adventure story to rival those of Hillary and Tensing, Thor Heyerdahl, or Jacques Cousteau." - Chicago Tribune

"A book you won't soon forget." - Cleveland Press

"An 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 Yorker

O autorze

Paul 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.

Paul 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.