The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys download

The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Lynne Barrett-Lee (Author), Marina Chapman (Author). The poignant story of a lady who overcomes distinctive hardship and deprivation – rising up with a troop of capuchin monkeys – to find final redemption. In 1954, in a distant mountain village in South America, slightly woman was abducted. She was 4 years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing property and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and ravenous, she came upon a troop of capuchin monkeys. Performing totally on intuition, she tried to do what they did: she ate what they ate and copied their actions, and little by little, discovered to fend for herself.

So begins the story of her five years among the monkeys, throughout which era she progressively turned feral; she misplaced the ability to talk, misplaced all inhibition, lost any real sense of being human, changing the structure of human society with the social mores of her new simian family. However, society was finally to reclaim her. At age ten she was found by a pair of hunters who took her to the lawless Colombian city of Cucuta the place, in alternate for a parrot, they offered her to a brothel. When she realized that she was to be groomed for prostitution, she made her plans to escape. However her adventure wasn’t over yet… Within the vein of “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Metropolis of God,” this rousing story of a lost child who overcomes the risks of the wild and the brutality of the streets to lastly reclaim her life will astonish readers everywhere.

Format: Hardcover

Round 5 years previous, Marina is kidnapped from her home in Columbia. She remembers the boys operating with her through the woods, earlier than unceremoniously dropping her. Wandering for days, she is hungry and thirsty, crying for her mother. After an exhausting night, she finds herself surrounded by monkeys. By copying their actions she learns to survive, and eventually is accepted into their group. After a few years of surviving within the jungle, she finds two hunters, who she reveals herself too. Walking on all fours, unable to talk, she is taken again to town and offered to a brothel.

It is a very interesting and dynamic book. I used to be a bit skeptical about the premise, nevertheless it was fascinating. I wanted to learn extra about Marina, how did she discover a husband, increase a family? How did these round she react to her previous? I positively think an epilogue is needed. Extremely recommended.

The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

Lynne Barrett-Lee (Author), Marina Chapman (Author)

336 pages

Pegasus; 1 edition (April 1, 2013)

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