- Title:
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Escape from Manus: The untold true story
- Written by:
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Jaivet Ealom
- Read by:
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Roy Joseph
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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13 hours 17 minutes
- Published:
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July 02 2021
- Available Date:
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July 02 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867544913
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Autobiography; Memoirs; True Crime
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia
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Escape from Manus is the powerful account of how one man escaped the prison of Manus Island. A true story of bravery and resilience.
In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar’s brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. Instead of receiving refuge, he was transported to Australia’s infamous Manus Regional Processing Centre.
Blistering hot days spent in shipping containers on the island melted into weeks, then years until, finally, facing either jail in Papua New Guinea or being returned to almost certain death in Myanmar, he took matters into his own hands.
Drawing inspiration from the hit show Prison Break, Jaivet meticulously planned his escape. He made it out alive but was stateless, with no ID or passport. While the nightmare of Manus was behind him, his true escape to freedom had only just begun.
How Jaivet made it to sanctuary in Canada in a six-month-long odyssey by foot, boat, car and plane, with nothing but his instinct for survival, is miraculous.