Dion Leonard is a 41 year old Australian who lives in Edinburgh,
Scotland with his wife Lucja. Dion has not only completed but
competed in some of the world’s toughest ultra marathons across the
planet’s most inhospitable landscapes. This includes running across
the brutal Moroccan Sahara desert twice in the 250km Marathon Des
Sables and also twice across South Africa's Kalahari Desert, also
250km. Dion's latest 250km race across the Gobi Desert in China
turned out to be a completely different race where he fell in love
with a stray dog (later named Gobi) that followed him during the
week and who would change both of their lives forever.
Craig Borlase is a New York Times bestselling writer, specializing
in crafting dramatic, engaging memoirs. Recent work includes
Finding Gobi — the international and New York Times bestselling
account of an ultra-marathon runner's chance encounter with a stray
dog in the Mongolian desert, now translated into twenty-one
languages — and My Name Is Tani — the story of an eight year old
chess prodigy living in a homeless shelter in NYC. Films of both
books are currently in development, with Tani… acquired by
Paramount Pictures/Trevor Noah and Gobi… acquired by Sony/Tencent.
Craig has collaborated with a wide range of authors on more than
fifty books, from a global entertainment icon to a former Muslim
woman who was one week away from becoming a suicide bomber.
Previous work has taken him to Iraq, Jordan, China, Haiti, India,
Sweden, Cuba, Uganda, Australia and all over the United States.
Website: https://www.craigborlase.com/
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