Short description
"The Long Walk" is the harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners' desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
Long description
This is the harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India. 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. 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. - Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm. The classic reissue is now available in paperback with a new Afterword.
Review
The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget... --Stephen Ambrose