Description
| Product ID: | 9781780576541 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Girl with No Name |
| Subtitle: | The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys |
| Authors: | Author: Marina Chapman, Vanessa James |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Child welfare and youth services, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Child welfare, Child & developmental psychology, Colombia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating .’In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went on to spend several years alone in the jungle, her only family a troop of capuchin monkeys. ‘It all happened so quickly. One minute I was squatting on the bare earth, preoccupied with popping pea pods. The next, I saw the flash of a black hand and white cloth, and before I even had a chance to cry out it had sailed towards my face, and completely covered it . . .’ |
| Imprint Name: | Mainstream Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-11-07 |