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Length: 12 hours and 13 minutes
Author: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Christopher McDougall
Category: Zoology
Publisher: Random House Audio
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“A delight, stuffed with coronary heart and hijinks and humor…. McDougall is a gifted storyteller who will get to the center of the human-animal connection.” (John Grogan, creator of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Canine)From the best-selling creator of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about coaching a rescue donkey to run probably the most difficult races in America, and, within the course of, discovering the life-changing energy of the human-animal connection.When Chris McDougall agreed to absorb a donkey from an animal hoarder, he thought it could be no tougher than the remainder of the changes he and his household had made after shifting from Philadelphia to the center of Pennsylvania Amish nation. However when he arrived, Sherman was in such dangerous form he may barely transfer, and his hair was popping out in clumps. Chris determined to undertake a radical rehabilitation program designed not solely to heal Sherman’s physique however to heal his thoughts as nicely. It seems the easiest way to assuage a donkey is to provide it a job, and so Chris determined to show Sherman run. He’d heard about burro racing – a novel kind of race the place people and donkeys run collectively in a call-back to mining days – and determined he and Sherman would enter the World Championship in Colorado.Simpler stated than completed. In the middle of Sherman’s coaching, Chris must recruit a number of different runners, each human and equine, and name upon the knowledge of burro racers, goat farmers, Amish operating membership members, and a bunch of irrepressible feminine long-haul truckers. A complete group comes collectively to assist save Sherman, and alongside the best way, Chris reveals us the enjoyment of a life with animals.
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