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(0)Christopher McDougall
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Born to Run comes a book that inspires us to unleash the extraordinary potential of the human body and climb, swim, skip, throw, and jump our way to heroic feats.
"Redefines the heroic ideal, establishing heroism as a skill set rather than a virtue."—NPR Books
Christopher McDougall’s journey begins with a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the...
"Redefines the heroic ideal, establishing heroism as a skill set rather than a virtue."—NPR Books
Christopher McDougall’s journey begins with a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Chris McDougall agreed to take in a donkey from an animal hoarder, he thought it would be no harder than the rest of the adjustments he and his family had made after moving from Philadelphia to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. But when he arrived Sherman was in such bad shape he could barely move and his hair was coming out in clumps. Chris decided to undertake a radical rehabilitation program designed not only to heal Sherman's body,...