| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (7 hr., 37 min.) |
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digital rda |
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data file rda |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Requires RBdigital Media Manager. |
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System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from title screen. |
| Access |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Henrietta Meire. |
| Form |
Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
| Summary |
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race"-an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. Riders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby, a course that recreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan, and 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. Told with terrific suspense and style, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead, against all odds, to become the first female winner of this breathtaking race. |
| Subject |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Meire, Henrietta. Narrator.
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HighBridge Audio (Firm).
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| ISBN |
9781684571550 |
| Music No. |
Z100150171 Recorded Books |
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