Rough Magic by Laura Prior-Palmer
/The author chronicles her participation in the Mongol Derby, a race across Mongolia in the hoof prints of Genghis Khan's postal couriers.
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The author chronicles her participation in the Mongol Derby, a race across Mongolia in the hoof prints of Genghis Khan's postal couriers.
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