Child of the Jungle

Sabine Kuegler

Hachette

A #1 bestseller in Europe, CHILD OF THE JUNGLE tells the remarkable story of a childhood and adolescence spent caught between two modes of existence-jungle life and Western "civilization." Sabine Kuegler was five years old when her family-her German linguist-missionary parents and her siblings-moved to the territory of the recently discovered hunter-and-gatherer Fayu tribe of Papua New Guinea. The Fayu tribe is best known for being a Stone Age community untouched by modern times-they live an existence characterized by fear, violence, and atavistic ritual (including cannibalism in some regions)-but Sabine's family saw another side to them as well. Once the Kueglers were accepted by a clan chief, they found themselves becoming a part of a tightly knit and fiercely loyal community, and living the primal existence of the Fayu-one marked by the natural cycles of day and night, malaria and other diseases, and daily encounters with wildlife, from swims with crocodiles to dinners of worms. As the Kueglers changed, so did the Fayu people, learning from Sabine's family that there was a way out of their cycle of violence and that forgiveness can be sweeter than revenge. At the age of 17, Sabine found her life turned upside down when she left for Switzerland to attend boarding school and entered traditional society head-on. CHILD OF THE JUNGLE is the story of a life lived among the Fayu and the author's attempt to reconcile her feelings about "civilization" with those about a life she knew and loved.

Jungle Child

Biographies & Memoirs

Virago Press Ltd.

Dschungelkind

Erweiterte Neuausgabe, Geïllustreerd / Illustrated / Illustré / Illustriert / / Biographies and Autobiographies / Duits / German / Allemand / Deutsch / hard cover / dust jacket / 14 x 22 cm / 352 .pp /

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

München

Jaegerin und Gejagte

Droemer

Knaur TB

The story of an exotic, touching, and unique childhood leads into the drama ofa woman who longs to revisit her homeland.Highly emotional, exciting, full of humor,in parts even poetic.

Bertelsmann

Ruf des Dschungels - bk353; Weltbild Verlag; Sabine Kuegler; pocket_book; 2007

Ruf des Dschungels

Weltbild

Ich schwimme nicht mehr da, wo die Krokodile sind

Westend

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