Rough Magic (eBook)

Lara Prior-Palmer (Autor)

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2019
288 Seiten
Catapult (Verlag)
978-1-948226-20-2 (ISBN)

Infos

For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woman who traveled to Mongolia to compete in the world’s longest, toughest horse race, and emerged as its youngest and first-ever female winner

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"e;Taking off on a horse into the Mongolian Steppe sounds like the bracing inverse to an overpopulated, busy urban life, but having the skills and grit to pull it off is another thing entirely. . . . Lara Prior-Palmer attempted the Mongol Derby not really knowing what she was getting into; she ended it knowing much more about herself, and a race champion besides."e; Estelle Tang, ElleAt the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "e;the world's longest, toughest horse race"e;an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her.Riders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby, a course that re-creates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan. Many fail to finish. Prior-Palmer had no formal training. She was driven by her own restlessness, stubbornness, and a lifelong love of horses. She raced for ten days through extreme heat and terrifying storms, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration, exhaustion and bruising falls, she decided she had nothing to lose. Each dawn she rode out again on a fresh horse, scrambling up mountains, swimming through rivers, crossing woodlands and wetlands, arid dunes and open steppe, as American television crews chased her in their jeeps.Told with terrific suspense and style, in a voice full of poetry and soul, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead, against all odds, to become the first female winner of this breathtaking race."e;Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmer's memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseverance-and a classic underdog tale."e; -Entertainment Weekly

Autor

LARA PRIOR-PALMER was born in London in 1994. She studied conceptual history and Persian at Stanford University. In 2013, she competed in the 1,000-kilometer Mongol Derby in Mongolia, sometimes described as the world’s toughest and longest horse race, and became the first woman to win the race, and the youngest person ever to finish. Rough Magic is her first book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Adventure Memoirs • Ariel Levy • Athletic Memoirs • Blair Braverman • books about horses horse book racing harness race track mongol derby mongolian horse race endurance racing competitive horse racing sea biscuit seabiscuit ghengis khan books set in mongolia steppe athletic memoirs adventure stories dog sled racing famous horses triple crown kentucky derby man o war unbroken secretariat • Books set in Mongolia • Competitive horse racing • Devan Horn • Endurance Horse Race • Ghengis Khan • Helen Macdonald • H is for Hawk • horse race • Lara Prior-Palmer • Lucinda Green • Mongol Derby • Mongolian Horse Race • mongolian steppe • On Trails • Richard Dunwoody • Robert Moor • rough magic • The Rules Do Not Apply • Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
• ISBN-10: 1-948226-20-0 / 1948226200
• ISBN-13: 978-1-948226-20-2 / 9781948226202