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Title	:	The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Author	:	Sławomir Rawicz
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2006 by Lyons Press (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Adventure. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Travel

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

Sławomir Rawicz

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 15540 Users | 2082 Reviews

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There is much controversy as to whether this account is fact or fiction. I googled the author's name and the book title and after reading dozens of articles and opinions, I'm still not sure, though I lean towards thinking that the narrative is actually a composite of a number of experiences including Rawicz's.

As was said in an account on the web entitled "#18 Anderson's Long Walk Expedition", in which a group of people retraced Rawicz's journey, although on camels not on foot:

Attempting to find truth in every written word of the Long Walk dooms the book to skepticism. The two most poignant examples of this are Rawicz and his companions crossing the Gobi desert without water for 13 days and sighting the yeti in the Himalayas. However, both of these events occurred when Rawicz was close to death due to extreme environmental conditions. Other sections of the book, such as the descriptions of the local people and their customs are so accurate it seems impossible a Polish immigrant living in England could have made up such details without experiencing them first hand.

Giving Rawicz some creative leeway, considering English was his third or fourth language and he wrote the book more than 15 years after the walk occurred, the events in the book take on a more believable tone.

You can find the complete article on the Polartech web site.

I certainly enjoyed reading the book whether or not it was a completely true re-telling of Rawicz's experiences or not.

The story was actually transcribed by Ronald Downing, a British reporter. I'm sure he took some creative liberties, especially in describing the Yeti encounter, due to his desire to find eye-witness accounts of just such meetings.

The story is exciting and moves along briskly. The prose is sparse but captures the emotion of these survivors very well. I recommend reading the book, if for no other reason, than to make up your own mind about the controversy surrounding its veracity.

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Original Title:	The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
ISBN:	1592289444 (ISBN13: 9781592289448)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Slavomir Rawicz
Setting:	Poland Siberia,1941(Russian Federation) Moscow(Russian Federation) …more (Pakistan) …less

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I am on page 79 in the book, right now the book is really taking a new step. (view spoiler)[The reason is since they have arrived at the camp i think 203 and made their barracks and have seen the secenery. before this they were making the long walk just to get their after his long bias trial were he really had no choise but to serve 25 years of hard labor (hide spoiler)] I think that this book really represents dehumanisation with the treatment of the main characters, and comradship with the

Suppose to be TRUE. I don't know. Google'd the book but recently some critics are skeptical on how TRUE the story plays out. Seven inmates from a Soviet labor camp in Siberia escape and WALKED thousands of miles thru bitter cold and then later thru the Gobi Desert,Tibet then finally made it to India seems far, FAR fetched. Again it could be True. It is NOT written anywhere near Laura Hillenbrand"s book,UNBROKEN. It had some of the same elements - one trying event after another - but it still is

I love Slavomir Ravis, A translation of The Long Walk

This book was kind of sad, but I really liked it. It's about a man whose first life is stolen by the Communists. So he escapes from a camp in Siberia and walks thousands of miles to get a new life--a good one. I cried when they were going through the Gobi desert, was touched when Marchinkovas said that the kindness of the Tibetian people wiped away some of his bitter memories.

A memoir must be an unrewarding thing to write today. So many have been discredited as either full of untruths or completely fabricated. Jerzy Kosinski's "Painted Bird", Carlos Casteneda's "The Teaching of Don Juan", more than a few of Oprah-publicized books, and now (a revelation for me) "The Long Walk", a book that has sold half a million copies since it was first published in 1956. I started to get suspicious about 1/3 of the way through this book. There were too many implausible incidents,

A story about a Polish cavalry officer captured by the Russians in 1939 and sentenced to 25 years in a Siberian prison. Escaping in late winter with six companions of varied nationalities, they deal with cold and hunger (they took food but had a meager diet before leaving and had little to hunt with). Along the way, they find a girl (as he calls her, but it seems she is more likely a young woman) who is also a fugitive, and they encounter individuals and civilizations that help them with food