Popular South American Biography Books
Find biography books written by authors from South America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (31)
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When I Fell from the Sky : The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke, Beate Rygiert EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
**Soon to be a major film starring Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner - Girl Who Fell From the Sky** On December 24th 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 hundreds of miles from civilization. She fell two 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 mothe... continue