![]() ![]() Setting off with her best friend, Mel, on a nearly year long bicycle ride, Harris narrates in great detail what she encountered in Turkey, sneaking through Tibetan checkpoints, and up high elevations into Greater Himalaya. ![]() She takes us along for a ride (Harris via her bicycle, reader via the narrative) as she reflects on her journey across the Silk Road and the burning question of how borders on a map shape our worldview. ![]() Originally from a small town in Canada, Harris drew inspiration from the writings of Marco Polo and achievements in space exploration to set forth on her ultimate goal: someday travel to Mars. This memoir can be defined in a multitude of ways: travelogue, philosophy, history of science. I don’t think I fully grasped what it means to have such a strong sense of true wanderlust and drive for exploration until I read Kate Harris’ memoir, Lands of Lost Borders. ![]()
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