| Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Contributor(s): Read, Piers Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812415019 ISBN-13: 9780812415018 Publisher: Perfection Learning OUR PRICE: $20.23 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: True story about how a group of people who survived an airplane crash in the Andes had toresort to cannibalism in order to stay alive. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers - Performing Arts | Film - General - Sports & Recreation | Mountaineering |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 1160 |
| Series: Avon Nonfiction |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 4.5" W x 6.6" (0.50 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 19776 Reading Level: 7.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable ... This is their story -- one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century. |