Somehow or other we find a reason to keep on going and it's the same here but on an epic scale".Print The Long Walk: The True Story of A Trek to Freedom It's about how we all struggle on every day.
It's not just some Polish bloke who wanted to get home. "Essentially it comes down to some sort of inner tenacity and that is what is so gripping about the book because you know that this is actually about all of us. Somehow or other we find a reason to keep on going and it's the same here but on an epic scale".- Benedict Allen, explorer and bestselling author of Into the Abyss and Edge of Blue Heaven But it must be read-and re-read." - Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm His account is so filled with despair and suffering it is almost unreadable. He and his companions crossed an entire continent-the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and then the Himalayas-with nothing but an ax, a knife, and a week's worth of food. None of them, however, has achieved the extraordinary feat Rawicz has recorded. History is filled with people who have crossed immense distances and survived despite horrific odds. "One of the epic treks of the human race. " The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget."- Stephen Ambrose
“The ultimate human endurance story…told with clarity, vivid description, and a good dash of romance and humor.”- The Vancouver Sun
must be read-and reread, and passed along to friends.”- National Geographic Adventure “Heroism is not the domain of the powerful it is the domain of people whose only other alternative is to give up and die…. “A book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of men seeking freedom.” "One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other time."- Chicago Tribune "A poet with steel in his soul."- New York Times
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