![]() ![]() He was sentenced to the gulag and the first several chapters are dedicated to getting there, with weeks on the way. It started off with Rawicz, a Polish cavalry officer, getting captured, imprisoned, and tried by the NKVD in 1939. So I started reading, with some puzzlement. In fact, it takes up maybe a page or two in the whole book. Wait, what? Downing goes on to explain that he met and interviewed Rawicz because he'd seen yetis, and insisted on telling the entire story, since the encounter with the yetis was pretty minor really. My newspaper, the London Daily Mail, was launching an expedition into Nepal to seek the yeti, or Abominable Snowman, of the Himalayas. Well, I couldn't resist that!īut I was a bit startled when I started to read the foreword, by Ronald Downing (a reporter who wrote the story as Rawicz told him), and it starts with My mom said it was a bestseller in its day - the memoir of a man who had escaped from a Siberian gulag and walked to India. It came across the book donation table, and I thought it looked interesting. ![]() Well, this was certainly an interesting read, and not for the reasons I thought it would be. The Long Walk: A Gamble for Life, by Slavomir Rawicz and Ronald Downing ![]()
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