Child of the jungle : the true story of a girl caught between two worlds
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Published
New York : Warner Books, 2007.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Warner Books ed.
Physical Desc
x, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
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Published
New York : Warner Books, 2007.
Edition
1st Warner Books ed.
Language
English
Notes
Description
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.--From publisher description.
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LC Subjects
Adjustment (Psychology) in children -- Switzerland -- Montreux.
Autobiographies.
Boarding schools -- Switzerland -- Montreux.
Children, White -- Indonesia -- Papua -- Biography.
Fayu (Indonesian people)
Germans -- Indonesia -- Papua -- Biography.
Girls -- Switzerland -- Montreux -- Biography.
Jungles -- Indonesia -- Papua.
Kuegler, Sabine -- Childhood and youth.
Papua (Indonesia) -- Biography.
Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
Autobiographies.
Boarding schools -- Switzerland -- Montreux.
Children, White -- Indonesia -- Papua -- Biography.
Fayu (Indonesian people)
Germans -- Indonesia -- Papua -- Biography.
Girls -- Switzerland -- Montreux -- Biography.
Jungles -- Indonesia -- Papua.
Kuegler, Sabine -- Childhood and youth.
Papua (Indonesia) -- Biography.
Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.