
Lands of Lost Borders
Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
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Narrateur(s):
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Amy Landon
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Auteur(s):
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Kate Harris
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National Best Seller
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 fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. Eventually, the truth dawned on her: An explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end.
Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer before her, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped.
©2018 Kate Harris (P)2019 Penguin Random House CanadaCe que les critiques en disent
Winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize
Winner of the 2019 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction
Winner of the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction
Winner of the 2019 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
Winner of the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition's Adventure Travel Award
Finalist for the 2019 Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize (BC Book Prize)
“Kate Harris packs more exuberant spirit, intrepid charm, wit, poetry and beauty into her every paragraph than most of us can manage in a lifetime. Whether writing of Pony Club or remotest Tibet, her longing for Mars or her days at Oxford, she braids heart, mind and spirit with a wide-awake vitality that inspires wonder. Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. It’s a modern classic.” (Pico Iyer)
“Kate Harris arrives among us like a meteor - a hurtling intelligence, inquiring into the nature of political borders and the meaning of crossing over. The honesty behind her self-doubt, her championing of simple human friendship, and her sheer determination to explore what she does not know, compel you to travel happily alongside her in Lands of Lost Borders.” (Barry Lopez)
“This is a hymn to the pure love of travel: a brave and astonishing journey.” (Colin Thubron)
Amazing, fun story!
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Amazing book
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Great story
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Wonderful book but…
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On the less positive side, the "story" rambles on like the longest of roads, leaving the listener little incentive to return and listen to more. The discomfort, shivering, hunger, and sweat of the journey negated the promised silk of the title. In fact, the whole thing seemed so miserable, I am not sure why the two women continued their journey. I just could never really understand why they were so motivated, or persistent.
The book is much too long, and would be improved by leaving out the first third and starting when the actual silk road journey began. The background provided in the long beginning chapters might have been summarized in flashbacks, as was done anyway.
Finally, I will not venture a listen to another book narrated read by Amy Landon. I found her voice too "sigh-like" and lacking in natural qualities.
Beautiful description, but...
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Fantastic read! what an adventure!
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Wonderful story but not the voice
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Compelling story
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I absolutely loved the story, and the descriptions
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The Borderlands of Beauty
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