Forty Days in the Jungle
behind the extraordinary survival and rescue of four children lost in the amazon
$36.00
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2025
Summary
An extraordinary, gripping survival story that also reveals the struggles for social justice of the Indigenous people of Colombia and the Amazon.
In June 2023, four Indigenous children were found alive in the Colombian Amazon, forty days after the light aircraft they had been travelling in crashed into deep jungle, killing the three adults on board. For weeks the Colombian public had been transfixed by clues of the children’s survival, of Indigenous tales of malign forest spirits, and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761380914 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761380915 |
| Author: | Mat Youkee |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 153mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Mat Youkee
Mat Youkee has lived in Colombia since 2010, working as a freelance journalist and professional investigator. He has covered Indigenous-rights issues in Colombia, Panama, Chile, and Argentina for The Guardian. His reporting has also appeared in The Economist, The Telegraph, the Financial Times, Americas Quarterly, Foreign Policy, and other local and international publications.
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