by Slavomir Rawicz

(North Salem, N.Y.): The Adventure Library, (1999).

First Adventure Library edition, first printing.

The introduction by Sebastian Junger, and the illustrated map end-papers by Maria Lazzaro were newly created and written exclusively for this Adventure Library edition.

The unverified memoir account of Slavomir Rawicz and six other Polish men who escaped in 1941 from a German prison camp, Gulag Siberia, and survived, traveling 4,000 miles through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before reaching British India in 1942.

An inspiration for several films, and adapted from the book to the 2010 Peter Weir directed film starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, and Colin Farrell.

Minuscule tan dot to the page fore-edges, else very nearly fine, crisp, square and tight in gray buckram linen over blue and gray stripe designed boards with gilt embossed titles, rules and compass device to black panels to the spine, blue-and-yellow headband and tail-band, blue, black and cream map illustrated end-papers; no dust jacket, as issued.

Handsome book production.

Octavo; 261 pages; plus translated introduction from the Polish edition by Slavomir Rawicz; plus a foreword by Ronald Downing; plus a new introduction by Sebastian Junger.

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