Book: When I Fell From The Sky

 Book: When I Fell From The Sky

Author: Juliane Koepcke

Pages: 256

This is my 18th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

The true story of one woman's miraculous survival.  On December 24, 1971, the teenage Juliane boarded the packed flight in Peru to meet her father for Christmas.  She and her mother fought to get some of the last seats available and felt thankful to have made the flight.  The LANSA airplane flew into a heavy thunderstorm and went down in dense Amazon jungle hundred of miles from civilization.  She fell 2 miles from the sky, still strapped to her plane seat, into the jungle.  She was the sole survivor among the 92 passengers, which included her mother, and Julian's unexplainable survival has been called a modern-day miracle.  With incrdible courage, instince and ingenuity, she crawled and walked alone for 11 days in the green hell of the Amazon.  She survived using the skills she'd learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle before coming across a loggers hut, and with it, safety.  

This was an interesting book.  The story of her crash and survival for 11 days in the jungle were the most captivating part of the book.  It isn't especially well written, but she lived quite the life, so it is easily overlooked.  It was a terrible tragedy that affected the rest of her life.  In 1998 they made a short documentary about her ordeal when she returned to Peru with a film crew to re-walk her path of survival.  She is quite the woman.

Stars: 3.5