
Rough Magic
Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
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Henrietta Meire
At the age of 19, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race" - an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of 25 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 recreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan, and 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 10 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.
Told with terrific suspense and style, 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.
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great book!
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wish you did not have forced limit of 15 words. should be enough i want to rate
loved!! and se well written!
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Lara's love for horses and her innate skill to ride them, exposes the champion within her.
May every adolescent girl, aspiring young woman and mature adult tap into her natural gift.
an inspiration for all young women
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Word Magic
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fun
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Loved every minute.
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Laid back teen who wins a race, I guess
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Hope story will be presented by different narrator again. Dont recommend book.
Rough magic book
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Loved every minute!
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The adventure of the great race is fully present, described somewhat self deprecatingly. The author sees herself in a comic farce more than as a player in a great epic, but she nonetheless triumphs. And beset with what I would call a nervous disposition, this seems to bother her, as if winning disrupts her octagonal piece in a round hole self image.
I greatly enjoyed the book, and the mental exercise of riding along on the journey. Wherever the author is, I hope she's in happier times, and has come to terms with herself and the world in a more comfortable fashion. Most of all, I hope she's still riding, but because she truly wants to.
1/3 Horse Race, 2/3's Unburdening of Soul
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