![]() Notwithstanding this shaky start, she has too much promise, too much drive. It is unlikely that the Lara Prior-Palmer we meet here will stop racing, either on turf or to some high artistic aspiration. She is fully open, readable, and sympathetic. It details an event that required involuntary courage, which is courage all the same, and in a few lines erases any doubt that she is inhumanly stoic. It is one of the few cleanly rendered and emotionally laden passages in the book. But then, in a single paragraph that acts as a literary landmine planted two-thirds in, Prior-Palmer reveals a stunning travail endured a few years after the race. Her judgment, toward race officials and reporters as well as to her fellow competitors, at times shocks, but it is also a sign of a sportswoman on fire. Well, a canter, since a gallop cannot be sustained over the length of the horse race into which she entered at the dewy age of nineteen: an endurance run of a thousand kilometers through the vast and forbidding landscape of Mongolia. ![]() This disease, considered fatal to women alone, is a badge of pride for Prior-Palmer. neither is the author afraid to be seen as unlikable. ![]() ![]() Lara Prior-Palmers journey in the Mongol Derby is one of excitement, pain, and profound inner. Prior-Palmer presents her leap-first, look-later character as impetuous, often running in unattended 'pixie mode' she is also 'attached to my exterior of fearlessness.' It seems to be a very specific way of being until you realize, Wait a minute. Rough Magic: Riding the Worlds Loneliest Horse Race. ![]()
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