{"product_id":"9781493022618","title":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSix-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.","brand":"Globe Pequot Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42583315185725,"sku":"9781493022618","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781493022618_p0.jpg?v=1774057245","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781493022618","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}