Papillon

he greatest true story of escape and adventure ever written! Condemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charrière (nicknamed Papillion) 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 solitary confinement and was sent eventually to Devil's Island, a hell-hole of disease and brutality. No one had ever escaped from this notorious prison - no one until Papillion 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 Papillion found welcomely free of European of restraints... Papillion is filled with tension, adventure and high excitement. It is also one of the most vivid stories of human endurance ever written.