On February 13, 1972, a Fairchild F-227 of the Uruguayan Air Force crashed with a rugby team and twenty-five of the friends and relatives aboard.
The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes.
An introduction to the Latin language designed for middle-school to high-school level learners.
Whether you are new to Sarasota, a frequenst visitor, an educator, historian or a longtime resident trying to connect the dots in your family tree, we believe the stories about the courage, dignity and determination of Newtown and Overtown ...
Waking up in a mysterious enclosed space with no memory of their identities, a group of teens uncovers evidence of a long-past war and the horrifying realities of their confinement.
The fire is catching on the birch logs and the planks , now , devouring the entire shelter . I have to save it , I think , except it isn't a coherent thought . Panic seizes me , and I grab at the nearest birch log .
A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about ...
I am just an average guy who found his world slipping away and-in a moment of extreme clarity-made the terrifying decision to stay and chase a life that is fully and recklessly alive.
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
This is done with less reluctance now, for the reason that floating through the press I meet with paragraphs concerning myself that are incorrect, and often absurdly untrue.
Coursing through this work is the clarity and resistance of a world that asks the poem to rise to this, to speak its fury.