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Alive!: The Story of the Andes Survivors

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4.1 out of 5
Based on 233 Ratings and 228 Reviews

Book Description
In October 1972 an aircraft carrying a party of Uruguayan rugby players and their friends took off from Argentina to fly over the Andes to Chile. It crashed in the mountains in dense cloud, and some of the 45 passengers were killed. The survivors soon realized, by listening to their transistor radio, that the search party had been called off because nobody could be expected to survive at that alti... More
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PublisherOxford University Press Inc
BindingPaperback (58 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages96
ISBN-100194242552
ISBN-13978-0194242554
Publication Date12/1980
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About Piers Paul Read (Author) : Piers Paul Read is a best-selling novelist, writer, and playright with numeous popular books including Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl, Alec Guinness: The Autho... more
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About Rosemary Border (Editor) : Rosemary Border is a published adapter, author, and an editor of children's books. Some of the published credits of Rosemary Border include Among Strangers (Collins Soundbites), Dying for a Drug! (Col... more
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