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Title: Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read ISBN: 0-380-00321-X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1975 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (125 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful Story of Survival
Comment: "Alive" is a fascinating tale of survival that has acquired a notoriety because of something that happened during that period of survival. That notoriety is a shame because it detracts from the greater story of how so many individuals could have made through what had happened to them. For those totally uninitiated to the story, a plane load of Uruguayan rugby players (and family members) goes down in the mountains of the Andes en route to their game in Chile. All efforts to locate the downed plane were unsuccessful and the search eventually is called off. However, many of the passengers have survived and are essentially, in good health. They gather together their resources which were limited because the flight was relatively short and thus the on-board supplies were short as well. Things happen as the survivors await the rescue that doesn't come and the most infamous thing that happens is that many of the survivors take to eating flesh of their departed. Ultimately, in what is the most spectacular event of the book, a couple of men decide to reach civiliztion on their own (scenes from "Lost Horizon" come to mind) and they actually succeed. This leads to the resue of the others as the whole world discovers their amazing survival. They also discover one of the not-so-secret means of their survival; their canabalism. A variety of sleazy accounts in print and film sought to depict that shocking aspect of an otherwise amazing survival story. Fortunately "Alive" (both the book and, later, the film) rise above that to bring the real story. This account is one you won't be able to put down until you've turned the last page.
Rating: 5
Summary: They were Survivors: Will you survive?
Comment: On October 12th, 1972, a small plane carring 45 rugby players and their families crashed in the Andes, after their pilot made a wrong tuirn in the Andes.
In the begining there where 45, and their story has gone down in history as one of the most unique and terrifying stories ever told. In the mountaisn slowly, accident, lack of food, avalanches and other un-foreseen causes destroy the men. But, their faith in God and their faith in their remaining families to find them and save them remains.
Horrifying problems arise, such as what to do for food. the common idea is to eat the dead, and the survivors remain alive off their loving and caring friends who have already passed. Cannibalism.
Soon, the men releize that no one is coming for them and they are going to have to get out by themself. And they do. In the middle of nowwhere, 2 of the survivors stuggle to civlization and save them all.
This book tells the truth of their survival and portrays the truth of what these men had to endure to stay alive. A story of truth, endurance, honesty, faith and wonderous and undying belief in surviving against the odds, 16 men survive for more than 2 months in the Andes, while the world around them slowly for gets them.
My favoriate part is when, the father of a rugby player whom has never stopped trying to search for his son, is reading the list of the survivors. He only knows that there are 16 survivors and he doesn't know if his son is one of they remaining, it is his job to read the list on-air to the family members listening to the radio to tell them of the survivors. He has been deticated to finding his son and never gave up, even when the Government refused to fund his searches anymore. He found help from strangers who had heard about the plane crash and had planes of their own, and were willing to help.
" "Fernando Parrado," he said, "Fernando Parrado." he pulled the paper a little further. "Jose Luis Inciarte...Jose Luis Inciarte," Then a little further: "Danial Fernandez ...Danial Fernandez." Then a little further: "Carlos Paez...Carlos Paez." Whereupon tears choked his voice, and for a moment he could read no more."
-Alive, Piers Paul Read
The book is an amazing story of endurance and anyone and everyone should read this story of real survivors.
Rating: 3
Summary: Very real book.
Comment: This is the story of a rugby team whos plane crashes in the Andes Mountains. This book shows how most of the team survived and even got rescued. A couple of the hardships that are faced are an avalanche and running out of food, which makes them resort to cannibalism.
The story was a good read, but the genre is not my type. This book did not click with me. Read this book if you want a real and graphic story because that is what it is.
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Title:Alive ASIN: B000065V40 Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.49 |
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Title: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ISBN: 0385486804 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 20 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer ISBN: 0385494785 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 19 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger ISBN: 0060977477 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl ISBN: 0671726528 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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