CHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL is the author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen and Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance. He began his career as an overseas correspondent for the Associated Press, covering wars in Rwanda and Angola. He now lives and writes (and runs, swims, climbs, and bear-crawls) among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
"A tale so mind-blowing as to be the stuff of legend." —The
Denver Post
"McDougall's book reminded me of why I love to run." —Bill Rodgers,
San Francisco Chronicle
"Fascinating. . . . Thrilling. . . . An operatic ode to the joys of
running." —The Washington Post
“It’s a great book. . . . A really gripping read. . . .Unbelievable
story . . . a really phenomenal book.” —Jon Stewart on The Daily
Show
"One of the most entertaining running books ever." —Amby Burfoot,
Runnersworld.com
“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history. . . .
[McDougall] seeks to learn the secrets of the Tarahumara the
old-fashioned way: He tracks them down. . . . The climactic race
reads like a sprint. . . . It simply makes you want to run.”
—Outside Magazine
“McDougall recounts his quest to understand near superhuman
ultra-runners with adrenaline pumped writing, humor and a distinct
voice...he never lets go from his impassioned mantra that humans
were born to run.” —NPR
“Born to Run is a fascinating and inspiring true adventure story,
based on humans pushing themselves to the limits. It’s destined to
become a classic.”–Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author of Mad, Bad and
Dangerous To Know
“Equal parts hilarity, explanation and earnestness—whisks the
reader along on a compelling dash to the end, and along the way
captures the sheer joy that a brisk run brings.” —Science News
“Born to Run is funny, insightful, captivating, and a great and
beautiful discovery.” —Lynne Cox, author of Swimming to
Antarctica
“A page-turner, taking the reader on an epic journey in search of
the world’s greatest distance runners in an effort to uncover the
secrets of their endurance.” —The Durango Herald
“Driven by an intense yet subtle curiosity, Christopher McDougall
gamely treads across the continent to pierce the soul and science
of long-distance running.”—Hampton Sides, author of Blood and
Thunder and Ghost Soldiers
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