Papillon - Henri Charrière

Condemned for a murder he had not committed, henri charriere (nicknamed papillon) was sent to the penal colony of french guiana forty-two days after his arrival he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat recaptured, he suffered a solitary confinement and was sent eventually to devils island, a hell-hole of disease and brutality no one had ever escaped from this notorious prison - no one until papillon took to the shark-infested sea supported only by a makeshift coconut-sack 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 fou...Read more