Yossi Ghinsberg

Who is 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 Shouldn'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 Back from Tuichi and Lost in The Jungle. In 2008, he wrote his second book titled Laws of the Jungle: Jaguars Don't Need Self-Help Books.