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February 2018 also reaching The Sunday Times Bestseller List. The main edition version is now available in 24 languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Japanese, German, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Korean, French, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovene, Russian, Serbian, Romanian and Czech. A chapter book edition for young adults and a children's picture book was also released in 2017. The young adult edition book won the 2017 New York City Big Book Award.
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second stage of the race with him. At the end of the day, the dog joined
Leonard in his tent. On Day three the dog ran the 26 mile stage and would receive the name Gobi from the desert the race was held. During stage three, Leonard carried Gobi several times through water barriers. Gobi did not run
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and other reviews. The paperback version was officially launched in the US on June 1, 2017, and went onto become a New York Times
Bestseller at number 3. The hardback version was released in the UK, Australia and New Zealand on June 13, 2017, reaching The Sunday Times Bestseller List. This was
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until the dog was found. Gobi had a deep gash on her head and was limping, but was otherwise unharmed. Leonard used some of the crowd funding money to fly Gobi to
Beijing for an operation on her hip, from which she recovered. Leonard has now brought Gobi home to Edinburgh after the four month
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On day one of the week long 155 mile desert race across the Gobi Desert a stray dog joined runners and completed 18 miles of the stage. Leonard noticed the stray dog at the start of the second day of the race. He did not expect the dog to follow him. The dog ran the 25
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Stages four and five of the run, as the race had entered the desert where temperatures exceeded 52°C. Gobi completed the final 8 mile stage with
Leonard to finish the race with him. Ultimately, Gobi ran 77 miles of the 155 mile race.
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