Lands of Lost Borders
Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE
WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION
"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."
As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars.
To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the…
KATE HARRIS is a writer and adventurer with a knack for getting lost. Named one of Canada's top modern-day explorers, her award-winning nature and travel writing has featured in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic Travel, Sidetracked and The Georgia Review, and cited in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. Her debut memoir, Lands of Lost Borders, about biking the Silk Road, was a #1 National Bestseller, the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, the Banff Mountain Book Competition's Adventure Travel Award, and was a finalist for the BC Book Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. She has degrees in science from MIT and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in the history of science from…
