The Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (November 2006) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0786166835; 0786100389; 0786146850; 0786101970; 078617367X | 79.94 MB
Narrator: John Lee | Genre: Literary | Mp3/VBR~32 kbps
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (November 2006) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0786166835; 0786100389; 0786146850; 0786101970; 078617367X | 79.94 MB
Narrator: John Lee | Genre: Literary | Mp3/VBR~32 kbps
| In the camps of the Siberian gulag, friends said it was hopeless. Nevertheless, in the spring of 1942 Slavomir Rawicz and four companions walked into British India, having journeyed four thousand miles by foot over tundra, Gobi, frozen rivers, and Himalayan peaks. A 26-year-old Polish cavalry officer arrested by the Soviets while home on leave in 1939, Rawicz survived on cunning, snake meat, and the kindness of countless strangers. Like a swimmer carefully counting breaths, John Lee narrates this astonishing adventure as if every word were a step on the long trek, the next phrase a precipice. His words resonate with Rawicz's text, savoring its long distances and carefully accommodating his pace to the tempo of the trek. Published originally in 1956, this timeless tale is given new life in Lee's fresh narration. About the Author Slavomir Rawicz 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. |
.
Publicar un comentario