TY - BOOK AU - Read,Piers Paul TI - Alive: sixteen men, seventy-two days, and insurmountable odds-- the classic adventure of survival in the Andes SN - 0060778660 (tpb) AV - TL553.9 .R4 2005 U1 - 982/.6 22 PY - 2005///, c1974 CY - New York PB - Harper Perennial KW - Aircraft accidents KW - Andes Region KW - Cannibalism KW - Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc KW - sears N1 - Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 ER -