Cannot open Pages document in Mavericks

Someone has sent mew a Pages document. When I try and open it I get an error message saying:
You need newer versions of OS X and Pages to open this document.
Install the latest version of OS X, then download the latest version of Pages from the Mac App Store.
Is there a converter anywhere I can use? I'm not going to upgrade my entire OS just to open one document. To be frank I can't believe Apple are even suggesting it. Unfortunately asking the sender to re-save it as another format isn't an acceptable option.
I'm on 10.9.5, and Pages 5.2.2.

I suspect that the priority is on cross-platform compatibility and use of iCloud Drive. I understand this is a critical part of the OS/X-iOS business strategy and I don't begrudge the effort, but I think this has undermined the focus on important features.
No ability to do endnotes? That should be easier to implement than footnotes. Advanced search for invisible characters (line breaks in particular) was a feature of great value and shouldn't be hard to implement within the current find&replace system. A lot of effort is going into Pages 5 as a common tool for three environments, but little seems to be going into rebuilding its feature set. And retaining the presentation of facing pages imported from 4.3 but not being able to change the settings is just frustrating.

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