Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them...
- ISBN-10
- 1444755412
- ISBN-13
- 9781444755411
- Series
- Deep Down Dark
- Category
- Copper mines and mining
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-18
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Author
- Hector Tobar
Description
'A gripping narrative, taut to the point of explosion ...An electrifying, empathetic work of journalism that makes a four-year-old story feel fresh' Kirkus, starred review Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar offers the definitive account of a heart-stopping survival story: the 2010 collapse of the San Jose mine and the international rescue effort that somehow managed to save all 33 miners, who had been trapped half a mile beneath the surface for 69 days. The rescue was watched by more 1 billion viewers worldwide. No other writer has been granted the deep and exclusive access to the miners that Hector Tobar has, and no one else can capture and recreate this unique drama so vividly, from the conflicts and the emotions that enveloped the men during their first fortnight below ground, when death by starvation loomed as their likely fate, to the subsequent weeks during which they established contact with the outside world. All the while, they remain trapped inside a still-thundering mountain that could collapse upon them at any moment.
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Other editions
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- 2014-10-07
- 320 pages
- Ebook
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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