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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Written by Piers Paul Read

Narrated by Paul Ansdell

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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October 12, 1972:

A plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the 45 original passengers and crew, only 16 made it off the mountain alive. For 10 excruciating weeks, they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, these men and women not only had to keep their faith; they had to make an impossible decision: Should they eat the flesh of their dead friends?

A remarkable story of endurance and determination, Alive is the dramatic best-selling account of one of the most harrowing quests for survival in modern times.

©2002 Piers Paul Read (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 16, 2017
ISBN9781520074429
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Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read, the son of poet and art critic Sir Herbert Read, was raised in North Yorkshire, was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, and was a student of history at Cambridge University. Before publishing his first novel, Game in Heaven, he worked as a subeditor on the Times Literary Supplement. His fiction and nonfiction has won many awards, and several of his works have been adapted for television or film.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Quite lengthy for the content but an interesting read nonetheless. The narrator for the audiobook has a nice voice. I think it's a bit graphic for some, and it's not super action packed, so better probably to do the audiobook while multitasking. If I read the hard copy, I probably wouldn't have finished just given the lags and the length. Overall I love memoirs and this is a unique historical event I'm glad I learned about.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is an accurate and unbiased version of a true story. It does not shy away from the gruesome facts of not only the resorted cannibalism but of the intricacies of the social aspects of isolation. The author provides details beyond their survival and rescue, as the passengers retun to a civilization that was not prepared to deal with the reality of their survival beyond a miracle.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Definitely worth listening , although the first and last two hours or so are rather tedious. Sensitive listeners should be warned that the description of the appalling conditions in which the boys survived doesn't leave much to the imagination...

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