- United States, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Search and rescue operations, World War, 1939-1945
Describes the 1945 odyssey of three plane crash survivors in New Guinea who endured a harrowing journey through the jungle to seek help, their encounter with a primitive tribe who had never seen white people, and their eventual rescue by a band of paratroopers.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Mitchell Zuckoff
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, HarperLuxe, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062065049
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