![]() ![]() ![]() She wanted more earthly adventures so, combining her fascination with wildness conservation with her childhood love of Marco Polo, Harris set out with a childhood friend to cycle along the Silk Road, from Turkey to India via Central Asia, Tibet, and Nepal. at MIT when she finally realised that space wasn’t what she was really looking for. She excelled at school, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and was working on her Ph.D. But she dreamed of reaching into the heavens – her destination was Mars. Growing up in a small rural community in southern Ontario, Harris loved tales of Marco Polo and dreamed of becoming an explorer in her own right. Modern-day explorers are lamentably scarce on the ground but not – I was delighted to discover when I picked up Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris – extinct. I loved to hear about the cartographers and botanists and naturalists who set off across deserts and jungles and mountains guided by a spirit of adventure and more curiosity than was often good for them.Īs the world has developed and become better connected, its mysteries have dwindled. ![]() Growing up, I loved to read about Victorian explorers. ![]()
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