I no longer swim where the crocodiles are

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Ecology

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Social Sciences

Sabine Kuegler

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292 pages

Sabine Kuegler grew up in the jungle of West Papua, Indonesia. Her book “Dschungelkind” became a worldwide bestseller. At the age of 17 she moved to Europe and experienced a culture clash. Today she lives in Hamburg, has children, friends and a job. But she is still torn between two worlds, and the inner struggle for her identity torments her. In the jungle, she learned that in order to survive, you have to become invisible – in the Western world, you have to be visible. As a child she was trained to perceive her world with all her senses, but here they are constantly overstimulated. With a unique perspective, she looks at our civilization from the outside and the inside: Are we happy here? Alienated? Healthy? Sick?

As an adult, she returns to the jungle several times. During one of these trips, Sabine Kuegler falls seriously ill, is declared incurable, and makes a last desperate attempt to save herself. She leaves Germany, putting her children in the care of their father, and returns to the jungle to find a cure and to the culture where she feels safe and protected. There she experiences adventures that many people find hard to believe.

In her new book, she tells for the first time about this dramatic time, her search for healing, happiness, and her place in life. In doing so, her unique life may also open up the possibility of being a mediator between cultures in a globalized world.

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Sabine Kuegler was born in Nepal in 1972. At the age of five, she moved with her parents, both linguists, to the jungles of West Papua, Indonesia, where she spent her childhood and adolescence. The family lived with a recently discovered indigenous tribe, the Fayu. At the age of 17, Sabine Kuegler left the jungle to complete her education in Switzerland. In 2005, she published her first book, “Dschungelkind”, an international bestseller that has been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2012, sick and abandoned by doctors, she returned to the jungle, where she lived with various tribes in the deepest jungles of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands for almost five years, finally finding a cure. Today, Sabine Kuegler works as an entrepreneur and is committed to fighting social and cultural ills.
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