Edition |
1997 edition / with an afterword by the author. |
Description |
x, 245 pages: map ; 23 cm |
Note |
"Ronald Downing ... helped [the author] write this book." -- t.p. verso. |
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Includes and afterword written by the author, London, 1997. (p. 243-245). The Cover, p. 4, notes that Rawicz died in 2004. |
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Reprints the 1997 ed. The Long walk was originally published: London : Constable, 1956. |
Contents |
Foreword / Ronald Downing -- Introduction to the Polish Edition -- 1. Kharkov and the Lubyanka -- 2. Trial and sentence -- 3. From prison to cattle truck -- 4. Three thousand miles by train -- 5. Chain gang -- 6. End of the journey -- 7. Life in camp -- 8. The wife of the Commissary -- 9. Plans for escape -- 10. Seven cross the Lena River -- 11. Baikal and a fugitive girl -- 12. Kristina joins the Party -- 13. Across the Trans-Siberian Railway -- 14. Eight enter Mongolia -- 15. Life among the friendly Mongols -- 16. The Gobi Desert : hunger, drought and death -- 17. Snake meat and mud -- 18. The last of the Gobi -- 19. Six enter Tibet -- 20. Five by-pass Lhasa -- 21. Himalayan foot-hills -- 22. Strange creatures -- 23. Four reach India -- Afterword to the 1997 Edition. |
Summary |
Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. |
Subject |
Rawicz, Slavomir.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
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Escaped prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
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Concentration camp escapes -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
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Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Biography.
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Escapes -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
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Asia, Central -- Description and travel.
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Added Author |
Downing, Ronald.
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ISBN |
1592289444 paperback |
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9781592289448 paperback |
Standard No. |
024933016952 |
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