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The girl with no name : the true story of a girl who lived with monkeys  Cover Image E-book E-book

The girl with no name : the true story of a girl who lived with monkeys / Marina Chapman, with Vanessa James and Lynne Barrett-Lee ; cover design by Peter Cocking.

Chapman, Marina, 1950- (author.). James, Vanessa, 1984- (author.). Barrett-Lee, Lynne, 1959- (author.). Cocking, Peter, (cover designer.).

Summary:

The riveting account of a girl who was abandoned in the jungle and lived among monkeys. In the early 1950s, in a remote mountain village in South America, a small girl was abducted then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. For approximately the next five years she lived with a troop of capuchin monkeys and gradually became feral. Taken from the jungle by a pair of hunters, she was sold as a slave to a couple who beat and tortured her, and then spent several years as a street child before being taken in by a family of criminals. Finally, a sympathetic neighbour arranged fo.

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  • ISBN: 9781771001182 (e-book)
  • ISBN: 1771001186 (e-book)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)
  • Publisher: [Edinburgh, Scotland] : Greystone Books, 2013.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Title Page; Dedication; Copyright; Foreword; Prologue; Part 1; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; Part 2; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; Photo Section; A note by Lynne Barrett-Lee; Organisations of interest.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Chapman, Marina, 1950?- > Childhood and youth.
Chapman, Marina, 1950?- > Kidnapping, 1954.
Kidnapping victims > Colombia > Biography.
Feral children > Colombia > Biography.
Street children > Colombia > Biography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Chapman, Marina, 1950?-
Abandoned children.
Child trafficking.
Feral children.
Human-animal relationships.
Colombia.
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biography.
Case studies.

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Marina Chapman lives in Bradford, U.K. She plans to donate her share of the profits from the publication of this book to charities that combat human trafficking, child slavery, and abuse in Colombia.


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