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Living with the Dead in the Andes
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Izumi Shimada
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-14 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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The Andean idea of death differs markedly from the Western view. In the Central Andes, particularly the highlands, death is not conceptually separated from life
Living with the Dead in the Andes
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Izumi Shimada
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-14 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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The Andean idea of death differs markedly from the Western view. In the Central Andes, particularly the highlands, death is not conceptually separated from life
I Had to Survive
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Roberto Canessa
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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This is a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's
Life and Death in the Andes
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Kim MacQuarrie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Gue
Miracle in the Andes
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Nando Parrado
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-15 - Publisher: Crown

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s qu