The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz

From the Publisher

In 1941, the author and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp. Their march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free.With a new Afterword by the author, and the author's Foreword to the Polish edition, this new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status. (6 X 9, 256 pages, map)"One of the epic treks of the human race. Shackleton, Franklin, Amundsen...history is filled with people who have crossed immense distances and survived despite horrific odds. None of them, however, has achieved the extraordinary feat Rawicz has recorded. He and his companions crossed an entire continent--the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and then the Himalayas--with nothing but an ax, a knife, and a week's worth of food...His account is so filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. But it must be read--and re-read."--Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm"The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget..."--Stephen Ambrose

Chicago Tribune

One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time.

Los Angeles Times

It is a book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.

The New York Times

A poet with steel in his soul.

What People Are Saying

One of the epic treks of the human race. Shackleton, Franklin, Amundsen...history is filled with people who have crossed immense distances and survived despite horrific odds. None of them, however, has achieved the extraordinary feat Rawicz has recorded. He and his companions crossed an entire continent--the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and then the Himalayas--with nothing but an ax, a knife, and a week's worth of food...His account is so filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. But it must be read--and re-read. --Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget... --Stephen Ambrose

Product Details

• ISBN: 1592289444
  
• ISBN-13: 9781592289448
• Format: Paperback, 245pp
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Pub. Date: April 2006
• Edition Description: Updated Edition
• Sales Rank: 9,251