Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road Audiobook (Free)

Lands of Lost Borders carried me personally up right into a state of openness and enthusiasm I haven’t was feeling for a long time. It’s today’s classic.’ -Pico Iyer

An excellent, fierce writer 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 Crazy that dares us to problem the limits we put on ourselves as well as the natural world.

As an adolescent, Kate Harris realized that the profession she about Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey in the Silk Street 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 complete earth; there was nothing left to become 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 bike down the fabled Silk Street with her youth friend Mel. Pedaling mile upon mile in a few from the remotest places on the planet, she realized an explorer, in virtually any era, will be the kind of individual who refuses to live between your lines. Neglect charting maps, naming peaks: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. The further she journeyed, the nearer she found a global as outrageous as she sensed within.

Lands of Lost Borders is the chronicle of Harris’s odyssey and an exploration of the need for breaking the limitations we collection ourselves; an study of the tales borders tell, as well as the restrictions they place on character and mankind; and a deep breathing for the existential have to explore-the important longing to find what in the world we are doing here.

Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer, Kate Harris offers a travel accounts at once exuberant and reflective, wry and rapturous. Lands of Lost Borders explores the type of limits as well as the wildness from the self that may never fully become mapped. Weaving experience and beliefs with the history of technology and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders celebrates our connection as human beings to the natural world, and ultimately to each other-a owed that transcends any fences or tales that may separate us.