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Running is Life

Running is Life

Running Is Life

Bruce Fleming

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Año de edición:
2010
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Filosofía
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9780761851752
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This book is set in many places-Cairo, the Eastern Sierras, Las Vegas, New York’s Adirondack Mountains, and Barcelona, among others-but always in the moving body of the runner hurtling both through and into the world. It is a hymn to human motion and an explanation of its sweetness.

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