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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given...
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given...
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A personal story of survival, hope, and spiritual awakening in the face of unspeakable tragedy. Its the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A survivor of the infamous 1972 plane crash in the Andes that inspired the filmAlive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists. On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the (3z(BOld Christians(3y(B rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed into the Andes...
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