The long walk :
by Rawicz, Slavomir
Published by : Lyons Press, (New York :) Physical details: x, 245 p. : map ; 23 cm. ISBN:1558216847 (pbk.); 9781558216846 (pbk.); 1558216340 (cloth); 9781558216341 (cloth); 1592289444 (pbk.); 9781592289448.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 940.5472470957 Raw (Browse shelf) | Available | 94946 |
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Originally published: London : Constable, 1956.
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 --
The 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 --
The Gobi Desert : hunger, drought and death --
Snake meat and mud --
The last of the Gobi --
Six enter Tibet --
Five by-pass Lhasa --
Himalayan foothills --
Strange creatures --
Four reach India.
Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
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