Tag: Michael Crawley

Michael Crawley spent fifteen months in Ethiopia training alongside runners at all levels of the sport. He gained a Ph.D. for his efforts, and the dissertation was eventually turned into Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia (Bloomsbury). Our reviewer is Erkki Vettenniemi, who has vast first-hand knowledge of Ethiopia and the nation’s runners. He is quite impressed by Crawley’s narration; even so, his knowledgeable review offers a few alternative interpretations.