bela 's review for:

Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road by Kate Harris

4.5

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This book exhilarated, excited, and enthralled me throughout. I often feel hesitant of exploration narratives, especially ones in which white people enter the lands of peoples of color, but Kate Harris does a stupendous job of exposing the problematic nature of exploration and the long term legacy of colonization in those places. Her prose is gorgeous and enticing, and I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves this world, in all its dark complexity.