Piers Paul Read – ALIVE – First UK Edition 1974 – SIGNED
£385.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Alive’ published The Alison Press [with] Secker and Warburg in 1974. A near fine book with spotting to the top edge and some light marks to the bottom of the rear board – SIGNED without dedication to the title page by the Author. In the near fine unclipped wrapper – a touch faded to the spine.
The book recounts the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes. The book follows a rugby team, relatives, and crew members stranded in brutal snow, cold, and hunger after the aircraft breaks apart in the mountains. Read focuses on their fear, leadership, faith, moral choices, and determination to survive. Most famously, the survivors are forced to eat the bodies of the dead, a decision presented with seriousness rather than sensationalism. Based on interviews with survivors, ‘Alive’ is a tense, humane account of disaster, endurance, and the will to return home.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Alive’ published The Alison Press [with] Secker and Warburg in 1974. A near fine book with spotting to the top edge and some light marks to the bottom of the rear board – SIGNED without dedication to the title page by the Author. In the near fine unclipped wrapper – a touch faded to the spine.
The book recounts the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes. The book follows a rugby team, relatives, and crew members stranded in brutal snow, cold, and hunger after the aircraft breaks apart in the mountains. Read focuses on their fear, leadership, faith, moral choices, and determination to survive. Most famously, the survivors are forced to eat the bodies of the dead, a decision presented with seriousness rather than sensationalism. Based on interviews with survivors, ‘Alive’ is a tense, humane account of disaster, endurance, and the will to return home.
