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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road

“`Lands of Lost Borders` carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven`t felt for years. It`s a modern classic.” Pico Iyer”`Lands of Lost Borders` is illuminating, heart-warming, and hopeful in its suggestion that we will explore not to conquer but to connect.” BooklistA brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road-an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of `The Places in Between`, `Lab Girl`, and `Wild` that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved-to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician-had gone extinct. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth; there was nothing left to be discovered. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars.`Lands of Lost Borders`, winner of the 2018 Banff Adventure Travel Award and a 2018 Nautilus Award, is the chronicle of Harris`s odyssey and an exploration of the importance of breaking the boundaries we set ourselves; an examination of the stories borders tell, and the restrictions they place on nature and humanity; and a meditation on the existential need to explore-the essential longing to discover what in the universe we are doing here.Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer, Kate Harris offers a travel account at once exuberant and reflective, wry and rapturous. `Lands of Lost Borders` explores the nature of limits and the wildness of the self that can never fully be mapped. Weaving adventure and philosophy with the history of science and exploration, `Lands of Lost Borders` celebrates our connection as humans to the natural world, and ultimately to each other-a belonging that transcends any fences or stories that may divide us.

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