Name: Running With Sherman: The Donkey With the Heart of a Hero
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Author: Christopher McDougall
ISBN: 9780593168103

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Running With Sherman: The Donkey With the Heart of a Hero

Type

Physical Book

Author

Christopher McDougall

Publisher

Random House Large Print

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

496

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780593168103

Synopsis "Running With Sherman: The Donkey With the Heart of a Hero "

"A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor . . . McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection." --John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst DogFrom the best-selling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America.When Chris McDougall agreed to take in a donkey from an animal hoarder, he thought it would be no harder than the rest of the adjustments he and his family had made after moving from Philadelphia to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. But when he arrived, Sherman was in such bad shape he could barely move, and his hair was coming out in clumps. Chris decided to undertake a radical rehabilitation program designed not only to heal Sherman's body but to heal his mind as well. It turns out the best way to soothe a donkey is to give it a job, and so Chris decided to teach Sherman how to run. He'd heard about burro racing--a unique type of race where humans and donkeys run together in a call-back to mining days--and decided he and Sherman would enter the World Championship in Colorado.Easier said than done. In the course of Sherman's training, Chris would have to recruit several other runners, both human and equine, and call upon the wisdom of burro racers, goat farmers, Amish running club members, and a group of irrepressible female long-haul truckers. Along the way, he shows us the life-changing power of animals, nature, and community.

Christopher McDougall

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Christopher McDougall is an American journalist and author, known for his bestseller Born to Run (2009), where he explores human endurance through the Tarahumara tribe of Mexico. A Harvard graduate and former war correspondent for Associated Press, McDougall has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Men’s Health.

His work includes Natural Born Heroes (2015), which investigates human strength and endurance during World War II, and Running with Sherman (2019), a story about rehabilitating a donkey to compete in mountain races. In 2022, he co-wrote Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide, a practical guide for runners. McDougall lives in Pennsylvania, where he continues to explore the limits of human potential through writing and physical activity.

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