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  2. Alive is a 1974 book by the British writer Piers Paul Read documenting the events of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. Story. Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

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  3. Apr 4, 2002 · by Piers Paul Read (Author) 4.5 4,033 ratings. See all formats and editions. In 1972, a Fairchild plane carrying forty-five passengers, including the Uruguayan rugby team, crashed in the Andes mountains. The thirty-two survivors were hopelessly lost in one of the most remote places on earth.

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  4. Alive is a nonfiction book published in 1974 by the British author Piers Paul Read. It is based on the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. The stranded men resorted to cannibalism to survive. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993.

  5. Dec 3, 2002 · by Piers Paul Read (Author) 4.5 4,259 ratings. See all formats and editions. “A classic in the literature of survival.” —Newsweek. On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snow-peaked Andes Mountains. Ten weeks later, only 16 of the 45 passengers were found alive.

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  6. Their survival was legendary. News about it traveled the world, it was called the “Miracle of the Andes.”. 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.

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  7. Alive is the story of an airplane flight that crashed over the Andes mountains. It is also the story of how some of the stranded passengers survived following the crash and their reintegration into the society they left behind.

  8. Nov 8, 2016 · How novelist Piers Paul Read came to write the blockbuster nonfiction sensation. The news that a group of Uruguayan rugby players had survived for 70 days after an air crash in the Andes appeared in the newspapers towards the end of December, 1972.

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