The Will to Walk

Strangers mocked him. Journalists questioned his sanity. His family begged him to come home. But he never turned away from the road.

In this inspiring, sincere and often intense memoir, Lei Diansheng recounts the decade he spent circumnavigating China. He followed his dream across deserts and over mountains, surviving storms, starvation, wild animals and robbery. A deeply human telling of the ecstatic highs and dismal lows of a near-impossible journey across stark frontiers.

LEI DIANSHENG won his place in history by committing ten years to circumnavigating the highways, deserts and plateaus of his homeland. Along the way he would stare death in the face, battling storms, starvation, wild animals, and all too often, his fellow man.

Lei’s journey brought him to the graves of his heroes, to China’s starkest frontiers and to a new understanding of what it means to be alive. In his memoir, The Will to Walk, Lei recounts the greatest heights and fiercest challenges of ten years spent off the beaten path, pursuing a dream further than anyone could have thought possible.