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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

Author
Koepcke, Juliane
Uniform Title
Als ich vom Himmel fiel. English
Published
London : Nicholas Brealey, 2012.
Physical Description
xii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm
Additional Creators
Rygiert, Beate and Benjamin, Ross

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Language Note
English translation of: Als ich vom Himmel fiel.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 My New Life -- ch. 2 A Childhood among Animals -- ch. 3 What I Learned About Life from My Father -- ch. 4 My Life in Two Worlds -- ch. 5 How I Became a Jungle Girl -- ch. 6 The Crash -- ch. 7 Alone in the Jungle -- ch. 8 Pucallpa Today -- ch. 9 The Large River -- ch. 10 The Return -- ch. 11 One Survived! -- ch. 12 Greetings from This World and the Next -- ch. 13 Terrible Certainty, Agonizing Uncertainty -- ch. 14 Nothing Is the Same As It Was -- ch. 15 Homecoming to a Foreign Country -- ch. 16 Miracles Still Happen -- ch. 17 A Reunion and a Return -- ch. 18 The Secret Soul of the Forest -- ch. 19 Keeping an Eye Fixed on the Future.
Summary
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived: Juliane Koepcke - here is her fascinating story of survival against all the odds.
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ISBN
9781857885835 (pbk.)
185788583X (pbk.)
Note
Includes index.
Endowment Note
Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library
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