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The true story of the sole survivor of the 1971 Peruvian plane crash who returned to civilization after trekking through the Amazon rainforest for 11 days. On December 24, 1971, 17-year-old girl Juliane boarded an Air Peru plane with her mother, preparing to go home to spend Christmas with her father. It was originally a smooth journey, but when it was approaching the Amazon rainforest, it encountered a heavy thunderstorm, and the plane crashed in the primitive jungle only dozens of kilometers away from the civilized world. Julianne was tied to an airplane seat and fell into the jungle from an altitude of three thousand meters. She was the only survivor among the 92 passengers, including her mother, a survival that experts could barely explain as a "modern miracle." With unimaginable courage, intuition and tenacity, Julianne walked alone in the Green Hell of the Amazon rainforest for eleven days. The skills she learned as a child in the rainforest with her parents allowed her to survive. It was not until more than 40 years after the plane crash that the author wrote a book about this incredible catastrophe for the first time, reviewing the efforts of his biologist parents in the science of birds, animals and plants, reliving his happy childhood in the Amazon rainforest, and the turning points in his life after the disaster.