SLAVOMIR RAWICZ was born in Pinsk, Belarus, in 1915. After the war, he settled in Nottingham, England, where he worked as a handicrafts and woodworking instructor, a cabinet-maker and later as a technician in architectural ceramics at a school of art and design. He married an English woman, with whom he had five children. In 1975, after a heart attack, he retired and lived in the countryside until his death in 2004.
Positively Homeric.
*The Times*
The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and
one that I will never forget.
*Stephen Ambrose*
A poet with steel in his soul.
*New York Times*
One of the most amazing, heroic stories of this or any other
time.
*Chicago Tribune*
A book filled with the spirit of human dignity and the courage of
men seeking freedom.
*Los Angeles Times*
Heroism is not the domain of the powerful; it is the domain of
people whose only other alternative is to give up and die . . .
[The Long Walk] must be read - and reread, and passed along to
friends.
*National Geographic Adventure*
The ultimate human endurance story . . . told with clarity, vivid
description, and a good dash of romance and humor.
*Vancouver Sun*
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*
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. It's not just some Polish bloke who
wanted to get home. It's about how we all struggle on every day.
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*
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