Kate harris books5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Once on the other side, Harris marvels at the landscape. She and Yule sneakily make their way through the checkpoints (mostly under). Harris had always wanted to go to Tibet from China which, at the time, was hard to get to. The book opens with a prologue set about five years before Harris and Yule’s epic bike trip. This book gave me the opportunity to tag along, like a Go Pro on their shoulders, on this remarkable journey. ![]() I would never be able to do what Harris and her fried, Mel Yule, did and spend ten months biking (biking!) along parts of the old Silk Road from Istanbul to Leh, in Ladakh. After reading her informative and impressive blend of travelogue and history of science and ecology, I agree-but I’m also glad that people with an undaunted desire to go out into the world and bring back their impressions for the rest of us still pop up from time to time. Kate Harris says near the beginning of her book, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road, by explaining that she believes she was born in the wrong era. ![]()
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