When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival. by Juliane Koepcke Paperback - 2012

Blown out of a plane which was struck by lightening over the Peruvian jungle 17 year old Juliane landed 3 km's below in a canopy of trees with only a broken collarbone, some cuts and bruises, then trekked for 9 days until she finally found civilization.On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from the plane two miles above the forest canopy, but had sustained only a broken collarbone and a cut on her leg.
With incredible courage, instinct and ingenuity, she survived three weeks in the ""green hell"" of the Amazon - using the skills she'd learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle - before coming across a loggers hut, and, with it, safety.
Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time, and in doing so tells us about her 'Gerald Durrell' childhood - with a menagerie of wild, exotic and sometimes dangerous pets - about how she learned to survive at her parents ecological station deep in the rainforest and about her present-day commitment to this wildlife as a biologist and dedicated environmentalist.
'She did not leave the airplane, the airplane left her'. - Werner Herzog, director of Grizzly Man
'Juliane Koepcke writes compellingly of the crash and her unusual childhood'. - Financial Times (DE)
'Exhilaratingly written'. - Express (DE)

Details

• Title When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival. by Juliane Koepcke
• Author Juliane Koepcke
• Binding Paperback
• Edition First Edition
• Pages 1
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London Boston
• Date 2012-05-01
• ISBN 9781857885835 / 185788583X
• Dimensions 8.46 x 5.31 x 0.75 in (21.49 x 13.49 x 1.91 cm)
• Dewey Decimal Code B