Escaping the Amazon: A South African Breaks Out of the French Foreign Legion, Cheats Death, and Finds Peace

by Jaime Salazar, Alex De Bruyn, Keryn Barnes

Alex de Bruyn was still in his early twenties as he stared out forlornly into the vast Atlantic Ocean from the French Guiana shore. Decades prior, Papillon and Dreyfus contemplated the same thoughts of escape. Following a boyhood dream and quest for glory, de Bruyn joined the French Foreign Legion. To thwart desertion, he was shipped off to a backwater French colony in the Amazon, serving in the elite jungle unit, the 3e REI. Given a false identity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1719995613
• ISBN13: 9781719995610
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"