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Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story de Carol Shaben

Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story

Autor Carol Shaben
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2014
Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to.

On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the criminal he was escorting to face charges. Despite the poor weather, Erik Vogel, the 24-year-old pilot, was under intense pressure to fly. Larry Shaben, the author's father and Canada's first Muslim Cabinet Minister, was commuting home after a busy week at the Alberta Legislature. Constable Scott Deschamps was escorting Paul Archambault, a drifter wanted on an outstanding warrant. Against regulations, Archambault's handcuffs were removed-a decision that would profoundly impact the men's survival.

As the men fight through the night to stay alive, the dividing lines of power, wealth, and status are erased, and each man is forced to confront the precious and limited nature of his existence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781455501960
ISBN-10: 1455501964
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing

Notă biografică

Carol Shaben won two Canadian National Magazine Awards--a Gold Medal for Investigative Reporting and a Silver Medal for Politics and Public Interest--for articles that highlighted the subject of this book.

Recenzii

"Gripping and emotionally affecting. . . a deep and satisfying book."—Washington Post
"[Shaben] vividly recreates how these four total strangers managed to survive the tragedy."—New York Post
"WithInto the AbyssCarol Shaben gives us an astonishing true story of catastrophe and redemption. Shaben writes from the inside out, as in the best non-fiction, creating a nuanced and tightly braided portrait of four men and their shared trauma that is by turns terrifying and deeply humane. Every line in this story rings true."—John Vaillant, author of The Tiger
"Electrifying...Shaben's riveting narrative is filled with heart and the story is well told."—Publishers Weekly
"[T]his is a complex, chilling narrative rendered with depth and precision, engaged in both its characters and the larger social moment... A worthy addition to the canon of extreme-survival nonfiction."—Kirkus
"As a concept, it doesn't get much better [than this]...Into the Abyssis in the best traditions of true-life journalism and grips from beginning to end."—Iain Finlayson, The Times
"The gripping account . . . is ultimately about the survivors, telling the story in scouring yet respectful detail of the four men who limped away from the fatal crash."—Fish Griwkowsky, Edmonton Journal
"A story that has haunted Vancouver-based writer Carol Shaben, Larry's daughter, since it happened... She was able to use [Archambault's] story to take readers along on that stormy night, to the side of a mountain where four men struggled to stay alive overnight alongside the six others who had died."—Tracy Sherlock, Vancouver Sun

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The astonishing true life adventure story of a plane crash in the wilds of northern Canada...and the four men who survived to tell the tale.