Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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| Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home | |
| Author | Nando Parrado Vince Rause |
|---|---|
| Country | United States (publisher) Uruguay (author) |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Crown Publishers |
| Publication date | 2006 |
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home is a 2006 book by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause.
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[edit] Story
- See main article: The crash and rescue
Parrado co-wrote the 2006 book Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, with Vince Rause. In Miracle in the Andes, Parrado returns to Piers Paul Read's 1974 book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (which tells the story of the Uruguayan Rugby team who were alumni of Stella Maris College (Montevideo) who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972).
Read's version was published two years after the rescue and was based upon interviews with the survivors. Miracle of the Andes, however, is told from Parrado's point of view thirty-four years later.
[edit] Reviews
Publisher's Weekly notes that it is "more than a companion to the 1970s best-selling chronicle of the disaster, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, this is a fresh, gripping page-turner that will satisfy adventure readers, and a complex reflection on camaraderie, family and love." The Library Journal found the book to be, "more introspective than Piers Paul Read's journalistic account, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors...Parrado presents both the jaw-dropping realities of the 16 survivors' story and the life-altering lessons he learned from the experience" [1]. Jon Krakauer the author of Into Thin Air said the book is "an astonishing account of an unimaginable ordeal".[citation needed]
