Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

There's such a thing as the Mongol Derby? It's long, it's hard, it was created by Genghis Khan. Therefore, we must read about it!

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Author: Laura Prior-Palmer
288 pages
Rating: 3.7 Goodreads

Summary: 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.

We will meet at 7pm on Thursday, March 5 at:
TBD

I will be there early- I have short brown hair and glasses, and will be carrying a copy of the book.