I had to survive : my calling to save lives / Roberto Canessa, Pablo Vierci.

Canessa, Roberto, 1953-, author
Vierci, Pablo, 1950-, author

London : Constable, 2016.
London : Constable, 2016.

304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Translated from the Spanish.

My ways are the ways of the mountains. Hard, implacable, steeled over the anvil of an unrelenting wilderness in which only one thing matters: the fight to stay alive. On 12th October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the 'Old Christians' rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) crashed into the Andes mountains. This book offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading paediatric cardiologists.

9781472124159 (hbk)

363.124092
363.124

English
Spanish

No reviews available as yet
Add your review

2284470