"Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors" by Piers Paul Read, Published by Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1974. First BOMSC Edition: no price on the front flap of the dust jacket, small blind dot on the backboard]

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and scarcely any hope of a rescue. They survived by protecting and helping one another, and coming to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help- and ultimately found it. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable ...

"This is their story -- one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.A classic in the literature of survival." [Newsweek]

US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ------------- $9.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) ------ $29.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ------- $39.95

Original dust jacket with un-clipped front flap; hard boards, original cloth with white lettering on spine; 6.1/2” x 9.3/4”; ocher-yellow endpapers; 352 pages + many photographs on glossy paper, very good condition.