Incredibly well written, this is truly just as the title indicates, a miraculous true story of 33 men trapped 2,300 feet below in the bowels of a copper and gold mine in a remote area in Chile. With over time, working in brutal conditions, a good month could net $2,000 of pay, and thus the men pu...
I listened to the audiobook version, and it's fun with the accents. This starts out promising, as a tale of survival. But since it's a foregone conclusion, and the reader is told what will happen and how it will end, a lot of suspense was sapped out of it. It's a true story, but the author ass...
From the drill site they could see the abandoned offices of the mine, a pair of simple wooden shacks that like a ghost town captured a moment of instant abandonment—drawers open, files on the desk. In the days since the accident, the floor filled with the desert dust and the open wooden window sh...