Rough Magic : Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
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- ISBN: 1948226200
- ISBN: 9781948226202
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1 online resource (168 pages) - Publisher: New York : Catapult, 2019.
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Subject: | Horse racing -- Mongolia Women jockeys -- Mongolia FICTION -- General Horse racing Women jockeys Mongolia |
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- Baker & Taylor
The author describes how, at the age of nineteen, she became the youngest and first-ever female winner of the punishing horse race known as the Mongol Derby, a ten-day course that recreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan. - Lightning Source, Inc. Ebooks
For fans of Helen Macdonaldâs H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woman who traveled to Mongolia to compete in the worldâs longest, toughest horse race, and emerged as its youngest and first-ever female winner - Lightning Source, Inc. Ebooks
"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." ?Estelle Tang, Elle
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to âthe worldâs longest, toughest horse raceâ?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.
"Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmerâs memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseveranceâand a classic underdog tale." âEntertainment Weekly
- Random House, Inc.
"Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmerâs memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseveranceâand a classic underdog tale." âEntertainment Weekly
At the age of nineteen, Lara PriorâPalmer discovered a website devoted to âthe worldâs longest, toughest horse raceâ'an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twentyâfive 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 reâcreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan. Many fail to finish. PriorâPalmer 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.
"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 PriorâPalmer 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." 'Estelle Tang, Elle - Random House, Inc.
"Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmerâs memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseveranceâand a classic underdog tale." âEntertainment Weekly
At the age of nineteen, Lara PriorâPalmer discovered a website devoted to âthe worldâs longest, toughest horse raceâ?an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twentyâfive 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 reâcreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan. Many fail to finish. PriorâPalmer 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.
"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 PriorâPalmer 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." ?Estelle Tang, Elle