Alive: The Story Of The Andes Survivors
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A gripping work of narrative non-fiction, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors chronicles one of the most harrowing survival stories of the twentieth century — the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the remote, frozen peaks of the Andes Mountains. Piers Paul Read reconstructs, with meticulous detail and unflinching honesty, the 72-day ordeal endured by the survivors, a group of young rugby players and their companions who were forced to make unimaginable decisions in order to stay alive. The narrative presents the physical and psychological torment of the survivors with a tone that is both deeply compassionate and bracingly unsentimental, never shying away from the moral complexities at the heart of their story. Read draws on extensive interviews with the survivors themselves, giving the account an intimacy and authenticity that transforms it from mere reportage into a profound meditation on human endurance, faith, and the will to live. Alive stands as a landmark of true survival literature, as urgent and emotionally powerful today as when it was first published in 1974.
Author: Piers Paul Read
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Secker & Warburg (An Alison Press Book)
Genre: True crime
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A gripping work of narrative non-fiction, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors chronicles one of the most harrowing survival stories of the twentieth century — the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the remote, frozen peaks of the Andes Mountains. Piers Paul Read reconstructs, with meticulous detail and unflinching honesty, the 72-day ordeal endured by the survivors, a group of young rugby players and their companions who were forced to make unimaginable decisions in order to stay alive. The narrative presents the physical and psychological torment of the survivors with a tone that is both deeply compassionate and bracingly unsentimental, never shying away from the moral complexities at the heart of their story. Read draws on extensive interviews with the survivors themselves, giving the account an intimacy and authenticity that transforms it from mere reportage into a profound meditation on human endurance, faith, and the will to live. Alive stands as a landmark of true survival literature, as urgent and emotionally powerful today as when it was first published in 1974.