I wanted to make this a thread of its own. Like many of you I read the book The Long Walk and thought it was very interesting. There were, unfortunately, many parts of the book that were clearly untrue, for example the Yeti sighting, his claim that his party walked well over a week across the Gobi Desert without water, etc.
For those of you that didn't see the story, the BBC did some research and determined the story was fabricated. The bottom line is there is no evidence at all that his story is true, and documents proving it isn't.
There are many outstanding and true adventure books out there:
Endurance, the story of Shackleton's Antarctic survival,
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Alive, the story of the Andes plane crash and survival
Touching the Void, an incredible story of survival in the Andes,
Minus 148 Degrees, the first winter ascent of Mount McKinley
Annapurna, the first ascent of an 8,000 meter peak, without oxygen
And for a true story by one of our own,
Awol on the Appalachian Trail, which rings so true. My favorite AT book.