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A review by hollyfromthebigsky
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
In my standard, but also world's laziest (and most difficult to revisit) method of capturing quotes from books, I took so many photos of pages of this read. So many lines captured how I feel about travel & adventure and life, and so many words inspired me. Here's one simple example from pave 137 in this paperback edition:
"We long our whole lives for things we've never known, places we've never been, abstractions that come alive to us in unexpected ways...Perhaps the great task of modern explorers is not to conquer but to connect, to reveal how any given thing leads to another."
and one more, from page 77:
"Beyond avenging my childhood ideas of explorers, and figuring out how to be one myself, I wanted to bike the Silk Road as a practical extension of my thesis at Oxford: to study how borders make and break what is wild in the world, from mountain ranges to people's minds, and how science, or more specifically wilderness conservation, might bridge those divides. So there I was, rich in unemployable university degrees, poor in cash, with few possessions to my name beside a tent, a bicycle, and some books. I felt great about my life decisions, until I felt terrified."
"We long our whole lives for things we've never known, places we've never been, abstractions that come alive to us in unexpected ways...Perhaps the great task of modern explorers is not to conquer but to connect, to reveal how any given thing leads to another."
and one more, from page 77:
"Beyond avenging my childhood ideas of explorers, and figuring out how to be one myself, I wanted to bike the Silk Road as a practical extension of my thesis at Oxford: to study how borders make and break what is wild in the world, from mountain ranges to people's minds, and how science, or more specifically wilderness conservation, might bridge those divides. So there I was, rich in unemployable university degrees, poor in cash, with few possessions to my name beside a tent, a bicycle, and some books. I felt great about my life decisions, until I felt terrified."