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Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
5.0
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
I flew through this book this past summer, dreaming of when and where I can travel again post COVID. This memoir follows Kate her and her friend bike the silk road from Turkey to Nepal and India for almost a year. An incredible feat accomplish this book gave gorgeous descriptions of the various landscapes while also provide history on the people and places they were passing through. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who is experiencing any wanderlust.
"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."
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I flew through this book this past summer, dreaming of when and where I can travel again post COVID. This memoir follows Kate her and her friend bike the silk road from Turkey to Nepal and India for almost a year. An incredible feat accomplish this book gave gorgeous descriptions of the various landscapes while also provide history on the people and places they were passing through. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who is experiencing any wanderlust.
"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."
#travelgram