Read, Piers Paul,  1941- <br/><br/>
Alive :  sixteen men, seventy-two days, and insurmountable odds-- the classic adventure of survival in the Andes / 
Piers Paul Read. 
 - 1st Harper Perennial ed. 
 - New York :  Harper Perennial,  2005, c1974. 
 - xiv, 398 p. :  ill., maps ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> Adult  Follett Library Resources. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060778660 (tpb) 9780060778668 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005040230 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aircraft accidents--Andes Region.<br/>Cannibalism--Andes Region.<br/>Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.<br/>Aircraft accidents--Andes Region.<br/>Cannibalism.<br/>Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TL553.9  / .R4 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>982/.6