Child Of The Jungle Paperback / softback
by Sabine Kuegler
Paperback / softback
Description
In 1980 seven-year-old Sabine Kuegler and her family went to live in a remote jungle area of West Papua among the recently discovered Fayu - a tribe untouched by modern civilisation.
Her childhood was spent hunting, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows and chewing on pieces of bat-wing in place of gum.
She also learns how brutal nature can be - and sees the effect of war and hatred on tribal peoples. After the death of her Fayu-brother, Ohri, Sabine decides to leave the jungle and, aged seventeen, she goes to a boarding school in Switzerland - a traumatic change for a girl who acts and feels like one of the Fayu. 'Fear is something I learnt here' she says. 'In the Lost Valley, with a lost tribe, I was happy.
In the rest of the world it was I who was lost.'Here is Sabine Kuegler's remarkable true story of a childhood lived out in the Indonesian jungle, and the struggle to conform to European society that followed.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:08/03/2012
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- ISBN:9781844088874
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:08/03/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844088874
