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The long walk : the true story of a trek to freedom / Slavomir Rawicz.
Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. 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.
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- ISBN: 0762761296
- ISBN: 9780762761296
- ISBN: 9781599219752
- ISBN: 1599219751
- ISBN: 9780984509843
- ISBN: 0984509844
- Physical Description: x, 277 p. : map ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, c2010.
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| General Note: | "The classic adventure that inspired the major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir"--p.4 of Cover. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword by Ronald Downing -- Introduction to the Polish edition -- Kharkov and Lubyanka -- Trial and sentence -- From prison to cattle truck -- Three thousand miles by train -- Chain gang -- End of the journey -- Life in Camp 303 -- The wife of the commissar -- Plans for escape -- Seven across the Lena River -- Baikal and a fugitive girl -- Kristina joins the party -- Across the Trans-Siberian Railway -- Eight enter Mongolia -- Life among the friendly Mongols -- The Gobi Desert : hunger, drought and death -- Snake meat and mud -- The last of the Gobi -- Six enter Tibet -- Five by-pass Lhasa -- Himalayan foothills -- Strange creatures -- Four reach India -- Afterword to the 1997 edition. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independence Branch | 940.5472 R257L 2010 (Text) | 33126017291513 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |