Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read

Echavarren, for instance, had a dairy farm and could tell them about cheese, lingering over every detail of its manufacture and describing the taste and texture of each different variety with such passion that many of the others were left wondering why they too were not dairy farmers.

To Pedro, God was the love which existed between two human beings, or a group of human beings. Thus love was all important.

Perhaps the greatest value of the grace of God had been to preserve their sanity.

Each day that passed had peeled off layer upon layer of superficiality until they were left only with what they truly cared for: their families, their novias, their faith in God and their homeland.