Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction)

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Since all of the survivors frame their experience as a religious one, and since Read says the thing he had in common with them was their Roman Catholic beliefs, this is really not a book that's going to pick apart the survivors' practice and experience of religion--even if it were a book that had that kind of intellectual apparatus at all. It was this that helped us to survive, and now we do not want this--which was something intimate, intimate--to be hackneyed or touched or anything like that. Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy (2012) selects 100 poems from all three anthologies, a third from each. It became apparent very quickly that if the survivors were to be located, they would need to attempt to signal for assistance.

In this book Piers Paul Read documents in precise detail how everything unfolded for the survivors, from the airplane crash on October 13, until they were rescued, 72 days later. And when the moment came when we did not have any more food, or anything of that kind, we thought to ourselves that if Jesus at His last supper had shared His flesh and blood with His apostles, then it was a sign to us that we should do the same--take the flesh and blood as an intimate communion between us all. The book goes into failrly graphic detail of the dynamics of what the survivors did, but it also goes into the intense discussion and self-revelation they went through in deciding to eat their friends and family as well as the fallout when they got home. clean tight copy creasing, rubbing, to all edges, foxing to text pages, crease down middle spine good reading copy. In the book, they had already eaten the first people by about page 70; the book is hundreds of pages longer.

It's such a controversial question and topic but for anyone who loves reality based or mountain hiking adventure type of books,this is a must read. Rugby first came to Uruguay via a group of Irish priests hired to educate the children of the middle class. The eventual contact with outside human life and rescuers is quite moving; several of the survivors were so overjoyed at seeing plant life that they began eating flowers and grass. The fact that the majority of the group were fairly devout Catholics was a mainstay in their physical and emotional survival, and eating the flesh of the others was seen as more than necessary but almost as if it was a sacrifice that any of them would have made for the other.

Numa Turcatti and Pancho Delgado were trapped under the curved door, which had been the emergency exit to the plane and had been built into the wall, but they had air enough to breathe under its concave surface. There is nothing quite like the persistence of human achievement, and these stories speak to my adventurous soul.It is based on the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. We all know the story and the outcome but reading the book was like living through the experience with them. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.