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Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Charriere, Henri

ISBN: 9780007179961 PUBLISHER: HarperPerennial FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 432 PUBLICATION DATE: 3.05.2005 DIMENSIONS: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.6 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charriere (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Fortytwo days after his arrival he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured, he went into solitary confinement and was sent eventually to Devil's Island, a hellhole of disease and brutality. No one had ever escaped from this notorious prison no one until Papillon took to the sharkinfested sea supported only by a makeshift coconutsack raft. In thirteen years he made nine daring escapes, living through many fantastic adventures while on the run including a sojourn with South American Indians whose women Papillon found welcomely free of European restraints! Papillon is filled with tension, adventure and high excitement. It is also one of the most vivid stories of human endurance ever written. Henri Charriere died in 1973 at the age of 66.

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