Book description
"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 raceââan annual competition ofâŚ
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1 author picked Rough Magic as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved the voice and turns of phrase in this book. Signing up for the Mongolian Derby (a ten-day horse race on 25 different semi-wild ponies across 1000km of Mongolia) seemed like a lark for nineteen-year-old Prior-Palmer. Knowing at the outset she won the race kept me turning the page to discover how the hell someone who seemed more squirrel than human accomplished such a feat.
Some of my favorite parts were when she tuned into the ponies she rode and imagined what they had to say. I kept thinking her positivity, humor, care for the ponies, and willingness toâŚ
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