Deep down dark
By: Héctor Tobar
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781444755404; 9781444755398; 9781444755435
Subjects: San José Mine Accident, Chile, 2010; Accidents; Survival; Copper mines and mining; Gold mines and mining; Mine rescue work
Description: A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
Table of contents: title: Cities in the desert; title: Beneath the mountain of thunder and sorrow. A company man ; The end of everything ; The dinner hour ; "I'm always hungry" ; Red alert! ; "We have sinned" ; Blessed among women ; A flickering flame ; Cavern of dreams; title: Seeing the devil. The speed of sound ; Christmas ; Astronauts ; Absolute leader ; Cowboys ; Saints, statues, Satan ; Independence Day ; Rebirth; title: The Southern Cross. In a better country ; The tallest tower ; Underground ; Under the stars.