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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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