NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving first-person account of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home—by Nando Parrado, a subject of the Oscar-nominated film Society of the Snow
Featuring a new introduction by the author to commemorate of the fiftieth anniversary of the crash
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”—Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild
Product details
Publisher : Crown; Reprint edition (May 15, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 140009769X
ISBN-13 : 978-1400097692
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.16 x 0.67 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #47,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#13 in Mountain Climbing
#142 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies
#1,470 in Memoirs (Books)
Customer Reviews: 4.7
2,826 ratings
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