And I Alone Survived

by Lauren Elder | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0002167816 Global Overview for this book
Registered by libertine101 of Perth City, Western Australia Australia on 1/12/2008
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10 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by libertine101 from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Saturday, January 12, 2008
A true story of survival. Have been wanting to read this one for a while. My boss was discarding thsi book from our stock (public library) and snapped it up!

Journal Entry 2 by libertine101 from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Friday, October 17, 2008
I like reading survival stories. This one was good..not great. What happened and the authors efforts to survive are amazing, don't get me wrong, but the way in which it was written could have been so much better.

Journal Entry 3 by Skyring from Reid, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Sunday, October 19, 2008
Yeah. I'll read this just before I get on a plane home to the other side of the island. Right. I may take it with me, and it may be the straw that breaks Qantas's back. We'll see.

"My gut hurts something fierce," he said. "I think the seatbelt gouged me."

On another note, so good to see you again, Lib! The woman consistently voted the sexiest in BookCrossing. Had to laugh that there was a mural of Marilyn Monroe behind you - she was a frump compared to you. It was a hot day and you were cool.

Journal Entry 4 by Skyring at Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wow! What a story!

We know the ending - from the title - but along the way the reader can only gasp at the fortitude of this woman, clad in light clothing, heels and no underpants, making a journey that experienced hikers and climbers would think twice about.

While shocked, injured, freezing cold and disoriented. She had a broken arm and a deep leg wound, among other injuries, but still she managed to make it out alive from one of the highest, most inaccessible of California's mountains, where the light plane in which she was a passenger crashed in turbulence.

Cleverly told, with "cutaways" to relatives and searchers, the story is incredible, and inspirational. How many of us, i wonder, would react in exactly the right way to survive such a calamity? She made the most of her limited resources, used common sense to make decisions, and endured what had to be endured, going from a comfortable Oakland home to a howling wilderness in an hour or two - and then out again on foot in a far longer time. Bleeding, shredded, aching and frostbitten feet.

How little separates us from disaster. In this case, a mere five metres higher and the plane would have crossed the ridgeline unharmed, those inside whooping with the thrill and the view. And then, life was on a razor's edge, with death from exposure or falling moments or millimetres away.

Until she found help, in one of the more surreal moments of the book.

I was glued to the pages.

Not a great literary effort, to be sure, but what a story! The crafting of the narrative echoes the practical, level-headed qualities of the woman who tells it. This is deathless prose, in a different and more literal sense.

Journal Entry 5 by Needle-n-Thread at Deakin, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Tuesday, August 10, 2010
I was given this book to read. If I like it I am to recommend this book to Goldenwattle.

Journal Entry 6 by Needle-n-Thread at Deakin, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Thursday, September 2, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (9/2/2010 UTC) at Deakin, Australian Capital Territory Australia

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Very absorbing story, and it really happened. Lauren Elder was one brave and resouceful lady with determination to survive. I gave this story 8 out of 10.

Passing this onto Goldenwattle.

Journal Entry 7 by winggoldenwattlewing at Deakin, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Thursday, September 2, 2010
This was passed onto me by Needle-n-Thread.

Journal Entry 8 by winggoldenwattlewing at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Sunday, September 12, 2010
I am going to quote a previous reader, “Wow! What a story!”
The true survival story of a remarkable escape from an aeroplane crash high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the US. Lauren Elder was determined to survive and despite the insanity of hallucinations she made it. The other two people in the plane were not so lucky, one dying of head injuries and the other of internal bleeding. I was surprised though that Lauren did not suspect Jay had internal bleeding – abdominal pain – cold limbs. However even if she had she could have done nothing to help. She walked out of the mountains into the small desert town of Independence, after clambering down almost vertical cliffs, through snow, over rocks, down a dry waterfall. Then she had to try and convince a suspicious community she needed help.
The writing is fast moving, it’s a page turner.

Passed to a non-BookCrosser and then Kermit58 has it, before it returns to me.

Journal Entry 9 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Acton, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Thursday, March 17, 2011
There's something to be said about not going over high mountains in small planes.

No undies!!!

Returned the book.

Journal Entry 10 by Kermit58 at Penrith, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, May 28, 2011
Thank you for the book.

Journal Entry 11 by winggoldenwattlewing at Parkes, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Saturday, September 24, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (9/24/2011 UTC) at Parkes, Australian Capital Territory Australia

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I released this at our BookCrossing meet at Floriade flower festival, Commonweath Park, Parkes, ACT.
Hotfrog (back to camera on right) picked it up.
Floriade


This book is released for:
2011 Keep Them Moving Challenge

Journal Entry 12 by Hotfrog at Queanbeyan, New South Wales Australia on Friday, November 16, 2012
Wow indeed! I read this a few months ago. Amazing story. I tried to pass it on to someone who has a pilot's licence, but he didn't seem too impressed and left it with me.

Taking it on the release walk at UnCANvention today.

Released 9 yrs ago (10/25/2014 UTC) at King O'Malley's Pub, Garema Place in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia

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At regular meet up of Canberra Bookcrossers

Journal Entry 14 by wombles at Caboolture, Queensland Australia on Thursday, November 27, 2014
Mailed to me with chocolate, the way all books should travel ;)
*waves hi to Libertine!*

Thanks Skyring, will add this to Mt TBR

Journal Entry 15 by wombles at State Library of Queensland OBCZ in Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Sunday, August 28, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (8/28/2016 UTC) at State Library of Queensland OBCZ in Brisbane, Queensland Australia

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To the finder of this book:

Congratulations! You have not only found yourself a book, but a whole community of book lovers dedicated to sharing books with each other & the world at large.

I hope that you will write a journal entry letting me know that the book has been found. Feel free to read and keep this book, or to pass it on to a friend or even set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find like you did. Happy reading!

You can always remain anonymous but if you are interested in joining please consider using wombles as your referrer.

Journal Entry 16 by SBA at Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Monday, August 29, 2016
Found and re-released in the State Library of Queensland, Infozone.

Journal Entry 17 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, August 22, 2018
The story is really impressive. Especially because it's true! Although you already know from the title what will happen, it's great fun to read, but the writing could be a little bit better.
I brought this book over to Germany

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