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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.

by Koepcke, Juliane.

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TitleTown Publishing, c2011.

Koepcke, Juliane.

Airplane crash survival -- Peru -- Personal narratives.

Aircraft accidents -- Peru -- Personal narratives.

Als ich vom Himmel fiel. English

1st English ed.

xii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Translation of: Als ich vom Himmel fiel : wie mir der Dschungel mein Leben zurückgab.

Includes index.

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.

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

Rygiert, Beate.

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