Born to Run

Journalist and avid runner, Christopher McDougall, writes about the bare foot running tribe located in Chihuahua, Mexico. The Tarahumara are legendary for their ability to run extreme distances in inhospitable conditions without breaking a sweat or getting injured. They would be considered among the elite runners of the developed world even though their society and technology are 500 years behind it. McDougall has managed to take a nonfiction subject and energize it with situations which may fool the reader into thinking this is fiction. "Born to Run" is a story of sport, an allegory of cross-cultural understanding and a catalogue of philosophies of living.