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Child of the jungle, the true story of a girl caught between two worlds, Sabine Kuegler

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Child of the jungle, the true story of a girl caught between two worlds, Sabine Kuegler

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Child of the jungle

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electronic resource eBook

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dictionaries

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Sabine Kuegler

Sub title

the true story of a girl caught between two worlds

Summary

Sabine Kuegler's childhood was far from typical. The child of German linguists and missionaries, she spent her youth living among the Fayu tribe in the most remote jungles of West Papua, Indonesia. There, as her family struggled for acceptance among the tightly knit and fiercely loyal community, Sabine spent her time swimming with crocodiles, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows, and chewing on pieces of bat-wing in place of gum. And she was happy. It wasn't until her world was upended at the age of 17 that Sabine experienced true fear for the first time: she was sent off to a boarding school in Switzerland and forced to confront the culture clash of modern Western society--giving her plenty of reason to be afraid. This is her remarkable true story

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