![]() ![]() Despite language and cultural barriers, no matter where their bikes took them they were lent a hand by most everyone they met. Obsessed in her early life with someday going to Mars, Harris’s travels take us instead to a place that to many is almost as foreign, right here on Earth. At one point, the pair even snuck around an armed border checkpoint at night in order to gain access to the Tibetan Plateau. Negotiating bureaucratic red tape in these countries is harder at times than climbing and descending the rough mountain roads of the route. Abandoning academia, she set her sights on intimately experiencing this formerly grand trade route now fallen silent behind restrictive borders. ![]() Inspired by explorers like Marco Polo and Fanny Bullock Workman, Harris grew up yearning to strike out on adventures of her own. The yearlong odyssey of author Kate Harris and her cycling pal Mel Yule draws back the curtain on a little-travelled area of the planet, giving us an intimate peek at life in countries like Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. ![]() Combining autobiography, adventure, philosophy and history, Lands of Lost Borderschronicles a wild cycling journey along the fabled Silk Road. ![]()
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