Recommended: ‘Out of Thin Air’ by Michael Crawley

This week, I read Michael Crawley’s Out of Thin Air: Running wisdom and magic from above the clouds in Ethiopia - and recommend it wholeheartedly.

Yes, I’m a runner, so I liked the opportunity to geek out and learn how some of the best runners on the planet go about things. But more than that, I enjoyed learning about a culture I admit to knowing very little about. The result is that Ethiopia has jumped right up the list of countries I would like to visit.

It’s well written, fun to read, and covers a topic that seems to have previously been strangely ignored (by white Anglo-European authors, at least).

[nb: If you click on the link at the top of this article, I receive a little bit of commission should you buy it]