Lands of lost borders : out of bounds on the Silk Road
"In the spirit of The places in Between and Into the silence, this is a transcendent memoir about travelling wildly out of bounds on the fabled Silk Road. As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved -- that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician, with a flair for basic science and endless slogging -- had gone extinct. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of...