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When I fell from the sky, the true story of one woman's miraculous survival, by Juliane Koepcke ; in collaboration with Beate Rygiert ; translated by Ross Benjamin

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When I fell from the sky

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by Juliane Koepcke ; in collaboration with Beate Rygiert ; translated by Ross Benjamin

the true story of one woman's miraculous survival

Describes an 11-day ordeal faced by the 17-year old sole survivor of an airplane crash in the Peruvian jungle in 1971

Christmas Eve, 1971 -- My new life -- A childhood among animals -- What I learned about life from my father -- My life in two worlds -- How I became a jungle girl -- The crash -- Alone in the jungle -- Pucallpa today -- The large river -- The return -- One survived! -- Greetings from this world and the next -- Terrible certainty, agonizing uncertainty -- Nothing is the same as it was -- Homecoming to a foreign country -- Miracles still happen -- A reunion and a return -- The secret soul of the forest -- Keeping an eye fixed on the future