Long Walk

Long Walk or The Long Walk may refer to:

Historical events

  • Long Walk of the Navajo, the 1864 deportation and attempted ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the U.S. Government
  • The Long Walk, Michael Long's 2004 walk to Canberra to highlight Indigenous Australian issues

Places

  • The Long Walk, a straight tree-lined avenue in Windsor Great Park, running for 2.5 miles (4.5 km) roughly southwards from Windsor Castle
  • Trinity College Long Walk, the core of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Art, entertainment, and media

Autobiographies

  • The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (1956), a memoir by Polish author SÅ‚awomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Siberian labour camp during World War II and headed south to India via Mongolia and Tibet
  • Long Walk to Freedom (book), a 1995 autobiography by Nelson Mandela
  • The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows (2013), a memoir by Brian Castner, the head of an explosive ordnance disposal unit in Iraq

Fiction

Opera

  • The Long Walk, a 2015 chamber opera with music by Jeremy Howard Beck and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann based on Castner's memoir, about a soldier struggling to reintegrate after returning from Iraq

See also

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