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Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story when he was stranded in an uncharted part of the bolivian amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981. Prosperis luck changed when he found himself in the middle of an eighthour sandstorm that left him disoriented, lost, and alone. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Amazing story of survival of a plane crash and a survival of life. A plane crash in the remote mountainous jungles of viet nam, which leaves the narrator the only passenger left alive, trapped and alone, opens a gripping story of survival. A true story of survival by annette herfkens at indigo. Critically wounded after surviving a plane crash in the vietnamese jungle, herfkens endured eight days alone with only rainwater to sustain her.
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