Child Of The Jungle
Author | : Sabine Kuegler |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2010-08-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748121632 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748121633 |
Rating | : 4/5 (633 Downloads) |
Download or read book Child Of The Jungle written by Sabine Kuegler and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.