Avis sur le produitPapillon by Henri Charriere (2006, Trade Paperback)

Redemption is a Road to Travel

As usual the book was a more complete and entertaining story than the excellent movie staring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. The true story covered many more escapes and adventures from the planning and building of many boats and navigation intricacies to the people he met and their cultures and stories. The island tribe where he lived for 6 months that was covered in fifteen minutes in the movie to the deep appreciation of God as interpreted by Henri Charriere....His observations about people who helped him and those who punished him. The laws of captivity and the interactions of his fellow captives in prison.
If you enjoyed the movie (which I did) this book will open a fuller deeper world to you of the trials and tribulations Papillon experienced to be free. Buy it. Enjoy it. Share his life and be forever impressed with one man whose desire to be free was exhilarating. You may not approve of some of the compromises necessary to survive but prison law is different than civil law.Lire l'avis complet...

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Amazing book that deserves a second, third reading

Papillon is all kind of things: adventure, survival, historical, autobiographical, geographical, political, and a love story as well. It’s one of the most remarkable things I’ve read and one of those rare books that takes you in at the beginning and never lets you down. Plenty of people would call this a must-read but I think it’s one of those you read and read again.Lire l'avis complet...

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Papillon by Henri Charriere

Papillon, is the true-life adventure story of Henri Charriere. He was given a life sentence in 1931 for a murder he didn’t commit. In 1933, he was transferred to the penal colony in French Guiana. Here is the story of: his nine escape attempts (and sometimes brutal re-captures), a detailed look at life inside the penal colony, his confinement in solitary, his transfer to Devil’s Island and eventual escape, and finally his freedom. You’ll meet many colorful characters and see how people cope with these extreme situations. The movie that was based on this book does show some of what’s in this book, but the movie changed quite a bit of the real story. I found it entertaining, educational, colorful, but sad to see so much of his life wasted in confinement. Papillon finds his freedom at the end of this book. He wrote a second book, Banco, where the adventures of this very colorful man continue.Lire l'avis complet...

You must read this book.

It was a don't put down book. You must read it! I am a former Corrections Officer and I loved the book and was glued to it. My Library had the movie and I got it and devoured it. The book was better though.Lire l'avis complet...

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Couldn't put it down!

Long book at over 500 pages but I couldn't stop reading it. What an amazing adventure. Made me want to travel in South America.

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