Vintage 1970 Papillon Novel by Henri Charrière

Vintage 1970 Papillon by Henri Charrière. Add this adventurous novel into your collection. Includes dust jacket in great condition with minimal shelf wear. Book is in great condition, with no rips or tears. Convicted in Paris in 1931, aged 25, for a murder he had not committed, Charrière was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana. One thought obsessed him: escape. Forty-two days after his arrival in 1933, he made his first break, traveling on the open sea in a tiny boat. In desperate stages, 1500 miles in all, he reached Colombia. There he was recaptured by the French authorities and sentenced to two years in solitary confinement. Eventually he was sent to Devil's Island. No one had ever escaped from this notorious prison-no one until Papillon flung himself from a giant rock into the foaming sea, to float for days in the shriveling sun-his makeshift raft two sacks of coconuts. As he tells his story straightforwardly, spontaneously, he is revealed as a leader-self-disciplined, modest, humorous, capable of great loyalty-inexhaustibly challenging the injustices of a dehumanized establishment. WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, INC.