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Check out Henri Charrière's novel Papillon for a readable first-person account of the infamous penal colony on Devil's Island.Alexander Miles interviewed former prisoners to write Devil's Island: Colony of the Damned.Thurston Clarke's hilarious Equator devotes a chapter to French Guiana.





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