Settantadue giorni
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788838475405 (8838475407)
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Piemme
Pages no: 351
Edition language: Italian
Opening Line: “It was Friday the thirteenth of October. We joked about that -flying over the Andes on such an unlucky day, but young men make these kinds of jokes so easily.” This was a fantastic read, absolutely gripping even though I already knew the story pretty well having read Piers Paul Read’s...
Even in the minds of the co-authors, this book is overshadowed by another, Piers Paul Read's Alive, which told this story of a plane crash and the months that followed in the Andes using interviews of the survivors. Nando Parrado, one of those survivors called Alive a "magnificent book" and said he ...
This searingly honest and heroic man finally insisted on finding a way out of the tragedy described in "Alive". He also states that the whole group stayed and prayed for rescue far too long at the crash site. Strangest to me is that once safely on the other side of the mountain, he and his companion...
disgusting. i'm trying not to vomit here. i don't want to read about the desperate measures necessary to survive when you're stuck in an airplane crash site in the andes, with no food, animals, plantlife for miles.72 days of subsisting on...*yuck!*pass on this book. if there were some way to excise ...
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