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yossi ghinsberg

yossi ghinsberg is an israeli adventurer , author and speaker based in australia .
he is most known for being lost and surviving alone in an uncharted part of the bolivian amazon for three weeks in 1981 .
ghinsberg 's survival story was featured in a documentary in `` i should n't be alive '' on discovery channel .
he wrote his first book titled `` back from tuichi '' in 1993 .
the book became very popular in israel and has been translated into 15 languages and published in several countries under different names - `` heart of the amazon '' -lrb- macmillen -rrb- `` back from tuichi '' -lrb- random house -rrb- and `` lost in the jungle '' -lrb- summersdale -rrb- .
in 2008 , he wrote his second book titled `` laws of the jungle : jaguars do n't need self-help books . ''
