Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes by Piers Paul Read

Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes

Piers Paul Read

398 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
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#1 New York Times Bestseller"No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down.... There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one's own life and its value." -- New RepublicSixteen Men, Seventy-Tw...

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4.08
based on 3,210 reviews

Moods

emotional: 67%

dark: 64%

adventurous: 61%

sad: 59%

inspiring: 56%

tense: 54%

challenging: 49%

informative: 45%

hopeful: 37%

reflective: 27%

funny: 2%


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13% of readers chose fast
64% of readers chose medium
21% of readers chose slow
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