Alive
by Piers Paul Read
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Author: Piers Paul ReadEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-01
ISBN: 0060778660
Number of pages: 398
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Summary: 5 Stars
This book is very cool, except when they get to the parts were they have to eat each other. They have to take strips of meat off the flesh of the bodies that die in the crash. They also had to melt the snow to get drinking water otherwise they would have died of dehydration. I think that it had to be tough for them to survive in that cold for 72 days was amazing. This book kept me interested, because there was a lot of action!
Summary of Alive
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 spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help -- and ultimately found it.
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