**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside Magazine**Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of mil...

A New York Times bestseller'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The TimesAt the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and th...

De Tarahumara-indianen in Mexico hebben het vermogen om honderden kilometers te rennen zonder rust of blessures. In dit meeslepende verhaal gaat de journalist en vaak geblesseerde hardloper Christopher McDougall op zoek naar hun geheimen. Hij neemt zijn lezers mee van de laboratoria van Harvard naar de zonovergoten valleien en ijskoude toppen in heel Noord-Amerika, waar steeds grotere aantallen ultralopers hun lichaam tot het uiterste drijven, en uiteindelijk naar een race in de Copper Can...

**From the bestselling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America, and, in the process, discovering the life-changing power of the human-animal connection."A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor." —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog**When Christopher McDougall decided to adopt a donkey in dire straits, he had no idea what he...

Un grand récit d'aventure, où tout est vrai et un un plaidoyer convaincant sur une philosophie qui fait de plus en plus d'adeptes dans le monde : la course minimaliste.Mais pourquoi Christopher McDougall a-t-il mal aux pieds à chaque fois qu'il court ? Pour répondre à cette entêtante question, l'auteur part à la recherche d'une tribu légendaire et d'un mystérieux Caballo Blanco, cachés dans les replis inaccessibles du Copper Canyon au Mexique.Sous la menace des narcotrafiqua...

Un relato fascinante que no solo conquistará tu mente sino que también inspirará tu cuerpo cuando descubras que el secreto de la felicidad está en tus pies y que todos hemos nacido para correr.Repleto de personajes inolvidables, increíbles hazañas atléticas y ciencia de vanguardia, Nacidos para correr es una aventura épica que comienza con la simple pregunta: ¿por qué me duele el pie? Para encontrar una respuesta, Christopher McDougall nos lleva desde los ...

When barefoot running guru Christopher McDougall takes in a neglected donkey, his aim is to get Sherman back to reasonable health. But Sherman is ill-tempered, obstinate and uncooperative - and it's clear his poor treatment has made him deeply fearful of humans. Christopher knows that donkeys need a purpose - they are working, pack animals - and so when he learns of the sport of Burro Racing or running with donkeys, he sets out to give Sherman something worth living for.With the ai...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Born to Run comes a book that inspires us to unleash the extraordinary potential of the human body and climb, swim, skip, throw, and jump our way to heroic feats."Redefines the heroic ideal, establishing heroism as a skill set rather than a virtue."—NPR Books**Christopher McDougall’s journey begins with a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the treacherous mountains of Crete, a motley band of Worl...

AS HEARD ON THE CHRIS EVANS BREAKFAST SHOW - "It's not just for runners. It's for life! It's a great story."When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special.To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging, outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost ar...

At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles lon...

The too-wild-to-believe story of how Mexico’s queen of pop became involved in a sex cultIn 2000, an international manhunt was underway for Mexican superstar Gloria Trevi, her manager Sergio Andrade, and the young girls in their entourage. They had gone on the run after Trevi and Andrade were accused of the abuse and rape of the girls in their care. How had a superstar gotten involved in a sex cult with nearly a dozen teenage girls?Andrade founded a performi...

L'auteur de Born to Run revient avec un livre qui raconte comment une équipe d'hommes ordinaires s'inspire des antiques techniques d'entraînement pour réussir une mission incroyable pendant la seconde guerre mondiale.Après les canyons du Mexique, l'auteur de Born to Run met le cap sur la Méditerranée et nous emmène en Crète, berceau de la mythologie grecque, où il va découvrir que les pouvoirs des héros de l'Antiquité ne sont pas inaccessibles au commun des mortels, comme ...