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The long walk : the true story of a trek to freedom / by 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1558216847 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781558216846 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1558216340 (cloth)
- ISBN: 9781558216341 (cloth)
- ISBN: 1592289444 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781592289448
- Physical Description: x, 245 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: New York : Lyons Press, [1997]
- Copyright: ©1997
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: London : Constable, 1956. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- 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 -- Gobi Desert, hunger, drought and death -- Snake meat and mud -- Last of the Gobi -- Six enter Tibet -- Five by-pass Lhasa -- Himalayan foot-hills -- Strange creatures -- Four reach India. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albright Memorial Library | 92 RAWICZ (Text) | 50686011041469 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
