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"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 IyerA 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.In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. Pedaling mile upon mile in some of the remotest places on earth, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. The farther she traveled, the closer she came to a world as wild as she felt within.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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I have some criticism to offer so let me state the positives first: This is a very good book. I gave it five stars, which is something I rarely do. I also gave it as a gift to a friend, also something I rarely do. It held my attention throughout. Kate Harris writes well, and her descriptions are vivid, often amusing, and occasionally suspenseful. As I am much more of a leisure cyclist but also as one who has biked in many foreign countries, I could empathize with many of the experiences she describes though hers multiplied mine a hundredfold. Reading this book was an opportunity to have a vicarious experience of going on an epic journey.But as good books often do with their ability to fully engage the reader, I have some criticisms. Chiefly, it has to do with her attitude toward money. The first hint of this came with her attitude about eco-tourism. She seemed to believe that once money is involved, whether or not it is simply helping to boost another’s economy, it is no longer a genuine experience. I fully agree that money should not be an end in itself, but Ms. Harris seems to have a sense of entitlement. Yes, she skimped and lived on bare necessities during her journey, living mostly on noodles and Nescafe and sleeping in a tent in all kinds of weather. But clearly this journey cost a considerable amount when you add in plane fares, bus rides, various legal documents and fees, and equipment costs. She also casually mentions in passing trips to Norway and Borneo, Alaska and Arizona, and a transcontinental bike ride, and years attending Oxford. But during all this time, as far as what she wrote, she never held down a job. Support thus came from others---a Rhodes scholarship, a donated bicycle, gifts from family and friends, and money raised through on online blog. I will grant that her intelligence and drive “earned” her this support, but she seems more than willing to accept this support without ever asking what she can contribute in turn.At heart is the question what is exploration all about? Is it merely for one’s own enjoyment or is really ultimately for the benefit of others. For Marco Polo, for Lewis and Clark, and presumably for a future mission to Mars, the ultimate benefit is for others. I’m not certain that is the case with Kate Harris.

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