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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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Author
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Christopher McDougall.
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Publisher
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Vintage
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paperback
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ISBN
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9780307279187
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Pages/Publication Date
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287/2011
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Daedalus Item Code
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29435
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Description
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This is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: why does my foot hurt? A journalist and an often-injured runner, Christopher McDougall sets out to discover the secrets of Mexico's Tarahumara Indians, who have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. Along the way, McDougall takes readers from science labs at Harvard to sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where growing numbers of runners are pushing their bodies to the limit. Finally we arrive at a climactic race in the Copper Canyons of Mexico that pits America's most athletic runners against the Tarahumara. "McDougall celebrates, in this engaging and picaresque account, humankind's innate love of running. There are rogues aplenty here, such the deadly narco-traffickers who roam Copper Canyon, but there are many more who inspire, such as the Tarahumara runners, who show the rest of the world the false limitations we place on human endurance. McDougall has served as an Associated Press war correspondent, is a contributing editor to Men's Health, and runs at his home in rural Pennsylvania, and he brings all of these experiences to bear in this slyly important, highly readable account."—Booklist
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