The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by SlavomirRawicz (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1970

  $4.01

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.38

  In 1941, the author and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labour 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. 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 axe, 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.

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $12.75

  Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags. After a three month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with six companions, realising that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death. In June 1941 they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom nine months later in March 1942 after travelling on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert. First published in 1956, this is one of the world's greatest true stories of adventure, survival and escape, has been the inspiration for the film The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir and starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris.