Re: [pct-l] The Backpacker's Bookshelf

On the subject of books that long distance hikers might enjoy, I highly 
recommend "The Long Walk" by Slavomir Rawicz.  It's about a WWII Polish 
cavalry officer who is captured by the Russians, his trial, his sentence to 
Siberia, and his escape by foot across Siberia, the Gobi desert, Tibet, 
Nepal, and the Himalayas to India.

Not quite like the regularly recommended books but an amazing (and true) 
story that really puts a long-distance hike in perspective.

Mara


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