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Author Chapman, Marina, 1950?-

Title The girl with no name : the incredible story of a child raised by monkeys / Marina Chapman, with Vanessa James and Lynne Barrett-Lee.

Publication Info. New York : Pegasus Books, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CHAPMAN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B CHAPMAN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  155.45 CHA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CHAPMAN MARINA    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B CHAPMAN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.734 CHA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 CHAPMAN, MAR    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B CHAPMAN    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B CHAPMAN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Biographies  B CHAPMAN MARINA C    Check Shelf

Edition First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Description 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came upon a troop of capuchin monkeys. Acting entirely on instinct, she tried to do what they did: she ate what they ate and copied their actions, and little by little, learned to fend for herself. So begins the story of her five years among the monkeys, during which time she gradually became feral; she lost the ability to speak, lost all inhibition, lost any real sense of being human, replacing the structure of human society with the social mores of her new simian family. At age ten she was discovered by a pair of hunters who took her to the lawless Colombian city of Cúcuta where, in exchange for a parrot, they sold her to a brothel. When she learned she was to be groomed for prostitution, she made her plans to escape. But her adventure wasn't over yet...
Subject Chapman, Marina, 1950?-
Feral children -- Colombia -- Biography.
Abandoned children -- Colombia -- Biography.
Child trafficking -- Colombia -- Biography.
Added Author James, Vanessa, 1984-
Barrett-Lee, Lynne, 1959-
ISBN 9781605984742
1605984744
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