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1) Born to Run
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?
“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside Magazine
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful...
“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside Magazine
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful...
Author
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America. 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...
Author
Publisher
a Borzoi Book, an imprint of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"While researching Born to Run, Chris McDougall encountered the story of Pheidippides, the legendary ancient Greek 'all-day runner.' Later, when McDougall met a dedicated amateur historian, he saw a connection to one of the most fascinating mysteries of World War II: how did a small band of Resistance fighters surrounded by German troops kidnap a top German general? What he discovered is that ancestral techniques for extraordinary endurance, natural...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Aislados por las peligrosas Barrancas del Cobre en México, los apacibles indios tarahumara han perfeccionado durante siglos la capacidad de correr cientas de millas sin descanso ni lesiones. En este relato, el periodista--y corredor habitualmente lesionado--Christopher McDougall sale a descubrir sus secretos.
Isolated by the dangerous cliffs of Copper Canyon in Mexico, the peaceful Tarahumara Indians have perfected over centuries the ability to...
