Exploration is not a place on a map but a way of moving through the world.
As a young woman, Kate Harris dreamed of becoming an astronaut, convinced that true discovery waited beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Yet between her studies at Oxford and MIT, she set out on a far more grounded expedition: a months-long bicycle journey along the Silk Road with a childhood friend. Crossing deserts, borderlands, and remote mountain passes, Harris confronts the limits we inherit and the boundaries we impose on ourselves.
Her journey becomes both an outward adventure and an inward reckoning, blending science, history, and wonder into a meditation on what it means to live fully in a mapped world.
Lands of Lost Borders is a vivid travelogue about wildness, belonging, and the human need to venture beyond the familiar.
