Title:
Alive : sixteen men, seventy-two days, and insurmountable odds-- the classic adventure of survival in the Andes / Piers Paul Read.
ISBN:
9780060778668
9780380003211
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Harper Perennial edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2005.
Physical Description:
xiv, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
Originally published: J.B. Lippincott Co., ©1974.
Summary:
Describes the ordeal of the survivors of an airplane crash in 1972 in the Andes wilderness in which over half of the forty-five passengers died, discussing the challenges the men faced during their ten weeks in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without supplies and with little hope of rescue.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.7 19.0 19776.
Audience:
1160L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocm57414666
Availability:
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