- survival, cannibalism, human endurance, God
True story of a plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains with 45 persons on board, only 16 survived!! The few who survived for 70 days did so by means of cannibalism !!! Very graphic, but an extremely good read to find out what us humans will do to survive !! God puts these young people to the extreme test!!
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and overwhelming.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Piers Paul Read
- First published
- January 14, 1993
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Arrow Books, Alison Press, J.B. Lippincott
- Editions
- 53
- Language
- French, German, und, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780380003211
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Piers Paul Read (born 7 March 1941) is a British novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage, *Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors*, later adapted as a feature film and a documentary. **Source**: [Piers Paul Read](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read) on Wikipedia.
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