To: TobagoJack who wrote (153381 ) 2/20/2020 12:34:05 AM From: Lazarus 1 RecommendationRecommended By
Read Replies (1) | Respond to In a former post on this thread I mentioned "THE RELATIVE VALUE OF THINGS" The Long Walk. In 1941, the author and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp. Their march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free.With a new Afterword by the author, and the author's Foreword to the Polish edition, this new edition of The Long Walk is destined to outrank its classic status. (6 X 9, 256 pages, map)"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 ax, 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"The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget..."--Stephen Ambrose I'll never forget the part in the book where the author came upon a man who had a loaf of bread when he was famished. He said it was at that instant he learned the RELATIVE VALUE OF THINGS ... for he said: I would have gladly traded a handful of diamonds for a piece of the bread. "worse case scenario"
