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Books like Natural Born Heroes
Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall is about movement, heroism, world war ii. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Born to Run
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Christopher McDougall · Health
Born to Run begins as a personal injury investigation.
Read the summary → - Can't Hurt Me
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David Goggins · Memoir
Can't Hurt Me is David Goggins's memoir of escaping an abusive childhood, failing military entrance requirements, becoming a Navy SEAL, and then becoming one of the most accomplished endurance athletes in the world — not through talent or privilege but through a deliberate, painful process of forcing himself past every limit he had.
Read the summary → - The Sports Gene
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David Epstein · Science
The Sports Gene is David Epstein's investigation into the science of athletic performance — specifically the question of how much genetics determines who becomes elite.
Read the summary → - Running with the Kenyans
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Adharanand Finn · Memoir
Running with the Kenyans is Adharanand Finn's account of uprooting his family and moving to Iten, a small town in the Kenyan Rift Valley that has produced more world-class distance runners than anywhere else on earth, to train alongside them and understand why they are so dominant.
Read the summary → - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · History
Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.
Read the summary → - 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann · History
Where 1491 ends, 1493 begins.
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