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Martin Dugard

Martin Dugard is an American author and historian known for his bestselling works on exploration, adventure, and history. He is the co-author of the multi-million selling "Killing" series with Bill O'Reilly, and has written notable books such as "Into Africa," "The Explorers," and "The Training Ground." His books have reached wide audiences internationally.

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Martin Dugard is a prolific American author noted for his bestselling works of history, adventure, and memoir. Born and raised in the United States, Dugard graduated college in 1986, but quickly realized his interests lay far from the corporate world. Instead, he pursued a writing career, contributing articles to major magazines like GQ, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Outside, which honed his craft and shaped his investigative, narrative-driven style. The turning point in his journey came with the publication of his early nonfiction, including "On the Edge" and "Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth," which chronicled extreme sports and personal endurance, marking his emergence as a distinctive voice in adventure and sports literature.

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To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons
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That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be. That's why the first step out the door is always so hard. That's when we choose between settling for average and being a superhero version of ourselves
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Excuses always lead to a reckoning. We find reasons not to take that first step out the door, just as we find ways to be - or not to be - our best. Weakness, doubt, and fear are parts of the human condition. Facing them instead of fabricating an elaborate ruse to sidestep them - hoping to avoid them but ultimately carrying them in our hearts and mind and psyche until they whittle away at our being - give us a direct route to hope and dreams
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All runners announce their entry into the sport with the most basic athletic action: a step. A simple foot plant that leads to thousands upon millions more: some faster, some slower; at home and around the world; in sun, blizzard and driving rain
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Running has taken me on adventures great and small, at home and around the world. It has provided me with hope and perseverance on days when I had none – and even, once every great while, warmed me with that fleeting ray of sunshine known as glory. Running has taught me that I can do anything, just so long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other
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Doubts are silenced in that whisper of time. Lives are changed…
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"Bonjour." This time with upward inflection to show optimism. Bremen casts a long shadow. Twin stacks, hull painted black. Berlin is waiting
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"Martin Dugard is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and historian who has written on topics ranging from presidents to Egyptian pharaohs"

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"Martin Dugard is the best-selling co-author, if not ghost writer, of political commentator Bill O'Reilly's 'Killing' series"

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"Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of Into Africa, The Training Ground, Last Voyage of Columbus, and The Explorers"

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"Martin Dugard is a sports, history, and nonfiction author best known for the 'Killing' series of novels that he coauthored with Bill O’Reilly"

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"Martin Dugard has 56 books on Goodreads with 846,286 ratings. Martin Dugard's most popular book is Killing Lincoln"

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"Martin Dugard is co-author of the mega-million selling Killing series: Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, and more"

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"Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them TAKING MIDWAY, TAKING LONDON, TAKING PARIS, TAKING BERLIN, the Killing series, INTO AFRICA and THE EXPLORERS"

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"Martin Dugard is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of the Taking Series — including Taking Berlin and Taking Paris"

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