The Girl With No Name

 Marina Chapman, with the assistance of ghostwriter Lynne Barrett-Lee, is the author of The Girl With No Name; The Incredible True Story Of A Child Raised by Monkeys. This true story starts at age 4 when a girl in Colombia is kidnapped, taken out to the jungle, and abandoned. She is four years old and wearing a dress and panties. The year is 1954. She cries alone in the forest, hungry and lonely. After a week or so she notices the monkeys foraging for food. She decides to copy their behavior to keep herself from starving. Soon she figures out how to get up into the canopy. Over time the monkeys come to accept her. One monkey cares for her when she gets sick from eating the wrong kind of nuts. He takes her to a waterfall and has her drink water until she vomits up the poisonous nuts. Over time she becomes feral. She forgets how to speak. She walks on all fours. She is a survivor. Now she is married and living in London. Some of the proceeds of her book go to help combat child slavery and human trafficking in Colombia.