Lost in the Amazon_A Battle for Survival in the Heart of the Rainforest by Tod Olson

Author:Tod Olson [Olson, Tod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

Stuck on the forest floor, Juliane had few options. With a machete she could have chopped through palm stalks and eaten the core. With a blowgun and years of training, she could have picked off a bird in the trees. With fishhooks, she could have pulled a bass or a catfish out of the river. But without tools, the forest was barren to her.

The only animals she could imagine catching were the frogs. In the rainy season, they were everywhere, hopping in the sand and mud, oblivious to the desperate human that shared their riverbank. They were gaudy creatures—vibrant yellow and red and blue. The boldest of them were toxic, Juliane knew that; the indigenous people of the Amazon used a fluid from the frogs to poison the tips of their darts.

But most species didn’t carry enough poison to kill a person. And the little amphibians were so tempting. They hopped inches from her face as she lay in the sand trying to muster the will to move on. Juliane swiped at them again and again. Each time they darted away before she could get a grasp, and another day went by without an ounce of food to eat.

At night, when there were no vines to battle or logs to dodge, when the problem of where to place a foot or how to stay afloat did not fill her mind—sometimes then, in the dark, she prayed. Her parents didn’t believe in a god, exactly. They were scientists, and whatever spiritual beliefs they held came from the forest that towered above Juliane. The sun sustains all life on Earth, and the process it sets in motion inspired a kind of awe in Hans and Maria Koepcke that no god could match. And still, Juliane prayed—for her mother, for her own rescue, for some kind of human contact.

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