Kate Harris

Broschiertes Buch

Lands of Lost Borders

A Journey on the Silk Road

Beschreibung

The farther she traveled, the closer she came to a world as wild as she felt within.Lands of Lost Borders, winner of the 2018 Banff Adventure Travel Award and a 2018 Nautilus Award, is the chronicle of Harrisâ s odyssey and an exploration of the importance of breaking the boundaries we set ourselves;

Autor

Kate Harris is a writer and adventurer with a knack for getting lost. Named one of Canada's top modern-day explorers, her award-winning nature and travel writing has featured in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic Travel, Sidetracked and The Georgia Review, and cited in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. In 2019, she was awarded the RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada's most esteemed literature awards. She has degrees in science from MIT and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in the history of science from Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes scholar. When she isn't away on expeditions, or reporting on UN environmental negotiations for the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Harris lives off-grid in a log cabin on the border of the Yukon, British Columbia and Alaska. This is her first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins US
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780062846662
• ISBN-10: 0062846663
• Artikelnr.: 53774616