by Piers Paul Read · Noguer Ediciones, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427938281
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«¡Viven! La tragedia de los Andes» is the non-fiction account by Piers Paul Read, published by Noguer Ediciones in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
It tells the true story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes in October 1972. It describes how the 45 passengers and crew, trapped at 3,500 metres with almost no resources, endured more than two months in extreme conditions, making desperate decisions to survive and return home.
Translation by Arturo Sánchez. Noguer Pocket Books collection, no. 34. Fifth edition. Originally published in 1974 as Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.
For readers of true stories of survival and air disasters, and for those seeking accounts of resilience and human nature at its limits.
British writer (born 1941)
