*** The Adventure Library was a series of 30 books sold by subscription between 19. This account by Piers Paul Read has been widely praised as being a "classic in the literature of survival". The original rescue mission was abandoned after eight days, and so two of the survivors eventually made a ten-day journey over 32 miles of mountainous terrain to fetch help. The 16 survivors of the crash were forced to take shelter in the wreckage of the aircraft, and for sustenance had to ea the bodies of the dead. *** An account of the Uruguayan rugby team's 72-day fight for survival, after their airplane crashed in the Andes in 1972. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. In half buckram with paper-covered boards featuring a manuscript text, gilt titles to spine on red labels, and end papers featuring facsimile autographs.
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