Purchase
The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
Pegasus
April 2013
On Sale: April 9, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 1605984744
EAN: 9781605984742
Kindle: B00BNPI7FG
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Biography
The poignant story of a girl who overcomes unique
hardship and deprivation - growing up with a troop of
capuchin monkeys - to find ultimate
redemption. In 1954, in a remote mountain
village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She
was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her
housing estate and then abandoned deep in the Colombian
jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later,
half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came upon a troop
of capuchin monkeys. Acting entirely on instinct, she tried
to do what they did: she ate what they ate and copied their
actions, and little by little, learned to fend for herself.
So begins the story of her five years among the
monkeys, during which time she gradually became feral; she
lost the ability to speak, lost all inhibition, lost any
real sense of being human, replacing the structure of human
society with the social mores of her new simian family. But
society was eventually to reclaim her. At age ten she was
discovered by a pair of hunters who took her to the lawless
Colombian city of Cucuta where, in exchange for a parrot,
they sold her to a brothel. When she learned that she was to
be groomed for prostitution, she made her plans to escape.
But her adventure wasn’t over yet... In the vein of
"Slumdog Millionaire" and "City of God," this rousing story
of a lost child who overcomes the dangers of the wild and
the brutality of the streets to finally reclaim her life
will astonish readers everywhere.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy