Parrado, Nando, 1949-

Miracle in the Andes : 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home / Nando Parrado with Vince Rause. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : Three Rivers Press, c2006. - 291 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Before -- Everything precious -- A promise -- Breathe once more -- Abandoned -- Tomb -- East -- The opposite of death -- "I see a man" -- After.

Nando Parrado chronicles his and his rugby teammates' ten-week struggle to survive in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashed on October 13, 1972.

Adult Follett Library Resources

Green Mountain Book Award 2008-09.

9781400097692 (pbk.) 140009769X (pbk.)


Parrado, Nando, 1949-
Parrado, Nando, 1949-


Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
Aircraft accidents--Andes Region.
Cannibalism--Andes Region.
Aircraft accident victims--Uruguay--Biography.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
Aircraft accidents--Andes Region.
Cannibalism.

TL553.9 / .P37 2006

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