Nando Parrado, after surviving the Andes plane crash, has gone on to become a successful businessman and television producer and presenter. He speaks five languages, is a hugely successful lecturer around the world, and in his spare time races motorcycles and stock cars.
His story is awesome. It is also enthralling, inspirational and an
impressive testimony to one man's unquenchable instinct for
survival and to the amazing resilience of the human spirit
*Daily Mail*
Given up for dead after an air crash in the Andes in 1972, Nando
Parrado not only survived but showed the strength and determination
that saved his own life and that of his fifteen friends. Now he
gives his own account of his ordeal -enthralling, enlightening,
modest, and moving. An impressive testimony to what love can
achieve
*Piers Paul Read, author of Alive*
An utterly compelling read
*Sunday Express*
Miracle in the Andes is an astonishing account of an unimaginable
ordeal. In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando
Parrado tells us what it took - and what it actually felt like - to
survive high in the Andes 72 days after having been given up for
dead. If you pick this book up, you will not be able to put it
down
*Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air*
Fantastic - it's the most emotional book I've ever read
*Sir Jackie Stewart*
This book not only reveals the lengths to which humans will go to
survive, it makes you question your own strengths and weaknesses
... [This] dramatic story is moving, powerful and riveting
*Daily Express*
Far and away the best book I've read this year is Miracle in the
Andes by Nando Parrado, survivor and rescuer of the others who
lived by desperate means through the horrific 1972 Andes plane
crash
*Publishing News*
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