{"product_id":"9780380003211","title":"Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAlive\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Piers Paul Read\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A classic in the literature of survival.” —Newsweek\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snow-peaked Andes Mountains. Ten weeks later, only 16 of the 45 passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane’s fuselage without food and scarcely any hope of a rescue. They survived by protecting and helping one another, and coming to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help—and ultimately found it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“A classic in the literature of survival.”\u003cbr\u003e“A great book . . . . an incredible saga. Read’s accomplishment in recording a struggle both physical and spiritual is superb.”\u003cbr\u003e“A chilling tale…. Will involve the reader as thoroughly as the best adventure novel. A book of real and lasting value.”\u003cbr\u003e“Superb…flawless…. A testimonial to the durability and determination of young men who might have chosen to die and simply would not.”\u003cbr\u003e“A masterpiece...It is inconceivable to me that this story could have been better told.”\u003cbr\u003e“No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading\u003cem\u003e Alive\u003c\/em\u003e without a heightened sense of one’s own life and its value.”\u003cbr\u003e“Thunderous entertainment...A classic human adventure...A narrative of terrific and enduring significance.”\u003cbr\u003e“Tragic, heartwarming, inspiring, shocking, terrifying, and true.”\u003cbr\u003e“An adventure story to rival those of Hillary and Tensing, Thor Heyerdahl, or Jacques Cousteau.”\u003cbr\u003e“A book you won’t soon forget.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780380003211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Avon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41013380251854,"sku":"9780380003211","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780380003211.jpg?v=1652103817","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780380003211","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}