Then other Polish émigrés in Britain claimed that they had made the walk and that Rawicz had not. Emerging records from Poland and Russia appeared to indicate that Rawicz could not have walked all the way from Siberia to India. I have read numerous websites and Linda Willis’s book, Looking for Mr Smith, published in 2010, which attempted to find all the available evidence. A number of reviewers of the book were highly sceptical at the time of publication and the intensity of investigation and speculation increased markedly over the past ten years or so. I was completely unaware his book had come under attack for being a fabrication (even allowing for journalistic licence on the part of the ghost writer, Ronald Downing of the Daily Mail, the newspaper which had funded a 1954 expedition to find the yeti). I read the book at the age of 13 when the Companion Book Club edition arrived in the post. The first set is about The Long Walk itself as I discovered a short while ago when I remembered Slavomir Rawicz and wondered what had happened to him (he died in 2004). The yeti is where one set of myths and legends meets another set of myths and legends.
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