{"product_id":"miracle-in-the-andes-nando-parrado-9781400097692","title":"Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSociety of the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing a new introduction by the author to commemorate of the fiftieth anniversary of the crash \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eInto the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father's grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to save his friends' lives as well as his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecades after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling\u003ci\u003e. Miracle in the Andes\u003c\/i\u003e, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nando Parrado, Vince Rause\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 140009769X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400097692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e113520 \/ Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Green Mountain Book Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2015 pg. 90","brand":"Nando Parrado","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051109052671,"sku":"9781400097692","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ff5a321-c737-4ec1-90d5-707cb736576d.jpg?v=1685011144","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/miracle-in-the-andes-nando-parrado-9781400097692","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}