On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning & went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She`d been thrown from the plane two miles above the forest canopy, but had sustained only a broken collarbone & a cut on her leg. With incredible courage, instinct & ingenuity, she survived three weeks in the ”green hell” of the Amazon
- using the skills she`d learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle
- before coming across a loggers hut, &, with it, safety. Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time, & in doing so tells us about her ` Gerald Durrell` childhood
- with a menagerie of wild, exotic & sometimes dangerous pets
- about how she learned to survive at her parents ecological station deep in the rainforest & about her present-day commitment to this wildlife as a biologist & dedicated environmentalist.