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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.
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Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Social life and customs, Biography, Girls, Jungles, Fayu (Indonesian people), White Children, Boarding schools, Adjustment (Psychology) in children, Childhood and youth, Germans, Children, indonesia, Ethnology, indonesia, Germans, foreign countries, Girls, biography, Indonesia, biography, Indonesia, social life and customs, Women, biography, Indonesia, description and travel, Switzerland, biography, Oceania, historyShowing 2 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds
March 2, 2007, Grand Central Publishing
in English
0446579068 9780446579063
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This translation originally published: as Jungle child. 2005.
Translated from the German.
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