Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors |
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Piers Paul Read
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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0099432498
Pub: Arrow Books Ltd
Pub date: 2005-10-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22859
Reader Reviews:
P.S. - ADDITIONAL MATERIAL (0/0 people found this helpful)
Potential purchasers should note this listing is for the 2005 Harper Perennial reprint of the book which features 8 pages of additional material including contemporary interviews with the author and some of the survivors.
As for the book itself, it remains the only book I literally couldn't put down and read in one extended sitting. It still retains that power and the additional material make this the edition to own.
Brilliant and truly thought provoking (1/1 people found this helpful)
This book is the story of human survival - it makes your think - most people would do what the survivors of this aircrash in the Andes did and that is eat the meat of their dead co-passengers. There were one or two who refused to eat and they died - you have to truly admire them for their principles and beliefs that lasted until they breathed their last breath. If there is a paradise they should be in it.
Fantastic (0/0 people found this helpful)
I can honestly say this is the best book I have ever read, because it stands out as being the only book I really could never put down.
It couldn't have been written better and knocks the absolute spots off the film.
Highly recommended.
False Pretences: inaccurate synopsis (3/7 people found this helpful)
according to the "back cover" blurb here it says "Piers Paul Read, himself a survivor of the crash". So, having met one of the survivors myself, I bought it.
When I get the book I realise Read was NOT a survivor of the crash, and it does NOT say that on the back cover.
I've been sold a pup! And not for the first time... I'll read Nando Parrado's book instead.
GRIPPING!! (5/5 people found this helpful)
An epic of human spirit, endurance and endeavour against the elements, desperation and death.
What is a little suprising is that even in the face of the most inhuman circumstances some still found humour. A true story of amazing solidarity and faith in themselves and humanity.
I read it in three days and couldn't put it down.
If you have Google Earth, take a look at the terrain using the tilt feature...it is truly an amazing achievment.
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