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Forty Days in the Jungle: Behind the Extraordinary Survival and Rescue of Four Children Lost in the Amazon

Forty Days in the Jungle: Behind the Extraordinary Survival and Rescue of Four Children Lost in the Amazon

Youkee, Mat

Paperback

Biographies GeneralEnvironmental StudiesSouth American History

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1957363959
ISBN13: 9781957363950
Publisher: Scribe Us
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

An extraordinary, gripping survival story that also reveals the struggles for social justice of the Indigenous people of Colombia and the Amazon.

In June 2023, four children--Lesly, Soleiny, Tien, and Crispin--were found alive in the Colombian Amazon, forty days after the aircraft they were traveling in had crashed and killed the three adults on board (the pilot, the co-pilot, and the children's mother). The eldest child, thirteen-year-old Lesly, took the decision to leave her dying mother, gather her siblings--aged nine, five, and eleven months--and head into the jungle. She kept herself and her siblings alive for forty days and nights, finally emerging when heavily armed soldiers closed in, yelling her name above the sound of barking dogs.

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