Forty Days in the Jungle

AN EXTRAORDINARY, GRIPPING SURVIVAL STORY THAT REVEALS THE STRUGGLES AND RESILIENCE OF THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. In June 2023, four Indigenous children were found alive in the Colombian Amazon, forty days after the light aircraft they had been travelling in crashed into deep jungle, killing the three adults on board. For weeks the Colombian public had been transfixed by clues of the children’s survival, of Indigenous tales of malign forest spirits, and of the unconventional tact