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Suvi
Apr 04, 2020 rated it liked it
Shelves: non-fiction, history, _latin-america
It's fair to assume that cannibalism is one of the reasons, if not the only reason, that the 1972 Andes plane crash is so well-known. When I ran into Read's book, it was the first thing that came to my mind, too. "Right, it was that incident where a rugby team started eating the dead." It's easy to write a sensationalist account of something like this, but Read's approach is matter-of-fact. Not particularly riveting (at least the dated translation I had), but it does its job and seems to be accu ...more
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Kristen Iworsky
Oct 24, 2007 rated it it was ok
Not great literature, but interesting story. I saw the movie years ago.
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