{"product_id":"the-long-walk-the-true-story-of-a-trek-to-freedom-9781493022618","title":"The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom","description":"\"I hope \u003cb\u003eThe Long Walk\u003c\/b\u003e will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves.\"--Slavomir Rawicz \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march--over thousands of miles by foot--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the original book sold hundreds of thousands of copies, this updated paperback version includes a new Afterword by the author, as well as the author's Foreword to the Polish book. Written in a hauntingly detailed, no holds barred way, the new edition of \u003cb\u003eThe Long Walk\u003c\/b\u003e is destined to outrank its classic status and guaranteed to forever stay in the reader's mind.***Six-time Academy Award-nominee Peter Weir (\u003ci\u003eMaster and Commander, The Truman Show, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Poets Society\u003c\/i\u003e) recently directed \u003ci\u003eThe Way Back, \u003c\/i\u003e a much-anticipated film based on \u003ci\u003eThe Long Walk\u003c\/i\u003e. Starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, and Ed Harris, it is due for release in 2011. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavomir Rawicz\u003c\/b\u003e lived in England after the war, settling near Nottingham and working as a handicrafts and woodworking instructor, a cabinetmaker, and later as a technician in architectural ceramics at a school of art and design. He married an Englishwoman, with whom he had five children. He retired in 1975 after a heart attack, and lived a quiet life in the countryside until his death in 2004.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lyons Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613131149586,"sku":"9781493022618","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cdb132bd-b9ec-4af6-8d5d-e1061f6f2569.jpg?v=1732387957","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-long-walk-the-true-story-of-a-trek-to-freedom-9781493022618","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}