Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes by Piers Paul Read

Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes

Piers Paul Read

448 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

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#1 New York Times Bestseller“No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one’s own life and its value.” — New RepublicSixteen Men, Seventy-Two D...

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Moods

adventurous 71%
challenging 71%
dark 71%
emotional 57%
informative 42%
sad 42%
tense 42%
hopeful 28%
inspiring 28%
reflective 14%

Pace

medium 62%
slow 25%
fast 12%

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3.91

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