When I fell from the sky : the true story of one woman's miraculous survival

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When I fell from the sky : the true story of one woman's miraculous survival

Author:

Koepcke, Juliane.

Uniform Title:

Als ich vom Himmel fiel. English

ISBN:

9780983754701

Edition:

1st English ed.

Publication Information:

Green Bay, WI : TitleTown Publishing, c2011.

Physical Description:

xii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Translation of: Als ich vom Himmel fiel : wie mir der Dschungel mein Leben zurückgab (Munich : Malik, 2011; 9783890293899).

Includes index.

Contents:

Christmas Eve, 1971 -- My new life -- A childhood among animals -- What I learned about life from my father -- My life in two worlds -- How I became a jungle girl -- The crash -- Alone in the jungle -- Pucallpa today -- The large river -- The return -- One survived! -- Greetings from this world and the next -- Terrible certainty, agonizing uncertainty -- Nothing is the same as it was -- Homecoming to a foreign country -- Miracles still happen -- A reunion and a return -- The secret soul of the forest -- Keeping an eye fixed on the future.

Personal Subject:

Koepcke, Juliane.

Subject Term:

Airplane crash survival -- Peru -- Biography.

Aircraft accidents -- Peru -- Biography.

Added Author:

Rygiert, Beate.

Benjamin, Ross.

Summary:

Describes an 11-day ordeal faced by the 17-year old sole survivor of an airplane crash in the Peruvian jungle in 1971.

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She was 17-years-old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth. Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern day miracle. Her mother was among the 91 dead and Juliane the sole survivor. For 11 days she crawled and walked alone through the jungle, fighting for her survival again with hunger and despair her only companions as maggots ate their way into her wounds. Juliane ultimately survives and goes on to live an inspiring life as a scientist continually drawn back to the terrain that threatened to take her. On the 40th anniversary, she shares not only the private moments of her survival and rescue but her life in the wake of the dramatic true story.

Author Notes

Juliane Koepcke has gone on to devote her life to preserving the rain forest that caught her and then saved her. Her story is one of miraculous and epic survival, as well as a "green" -inspired book that will leave all with a renewed respect and appreciation for the environment and our role in it.

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On Christmas Eve, 1971, 17-year-old Koepcke and her mother were flying from Lima to Pucallpa when their plane was struck by lightning during a freak storm. Catapulted from the plane two miles above the Peruvian rain forest, she landed in the jungle and miraculously survived. After regaining consciousness, she found herself alone and hurt, with a broken collarbone and a gash in her leg. Having spent a few years in the jungle during her youth, she was able to use the knowledge she had accumulated to survive, and, after an 11-day trek, she stumbled into the camp of three forest workers and was saved. Koepcke later followed in her parents' footsteps to become a zoologist, dedicating her life to realizing their dream of creating a nature preserve in Panguana. Her memoir is a gripping account of a harrowing adventure and an inspiring life. (Nov.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Christmas Eve, 1971	p. xi
Chapter 1 My New Life	p. 3
Chapter 2 A Childhood Among Animals	p. 7
Chapter 3 What I Learned About Life From My Father	p. 23
Chapter 4 My Life In Two Worlds	p. 3 3
Chapter 5 How I Became A Jungle Girl	p. 43
Chapter 6 The Crash	p. 61
Chapter 7 Alone In The Jungle	p. 69
Chapter 8 Pucallpa Today	p. 83
Chapter 9 The Large River	p. 89
Chapter 10 The Return	p. 101
Chapter 11 One Survived!	p. 117
Chapter 12 Greetings from this World and The Next	p. 127
Chapter 13 Terrible Certainty, Agonizing Uncertainty	p. 133
Chapter 14 Nothing is the Same As It Was	p. 143
Chapter 15 Homecoming to a Foreign Country	p. 155
Chapter 16 Miracles Still Happen	p. 171
Chapter 17 A Reunion and A Return	p. 181
Chapter 18 The Secret Soul of the Forest	p. 193
Chapter 19 Keeping an Eye Fixed on the Future	p. 209
Acknowledgments	p. 219
Index	p. 223

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