But as the Rhodes scholar returned to her studies at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it dawned on her that there was plenty to discover on her home planet, so she decided to ditch the classroom for the wide-open road.A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road-an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.Īs a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved-to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician-had gone extinct. At first, the trek just seemed like a way to pass the time before Harris launched into orbit. "Adventurer Kate Harris 'on another world' after winning RBC Taylor Prize". She currently shares a small cabin there with her partner.
In an interview with Anna Maria Tremonti, of The Current, Harris described falling in love with the land around Atlin, British Columbia when she skied across the nearby Juneau Icefield as part of an undergraduate field course in glaciology. Harris currently lives off-grid in northern British Columbia, near the Yukon border. She undertook the trip documented in her book with a friend. The Kobo Emerging Writer's Prize and Edna Staebler Award each come with a $10,000 cash award. The RBC Taylor prize comes with a $30,000 cash award. and the 2019 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Her first book, Lands of Lost Borders, a nonfiction book describing her experiences bicycling 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) of Asia's historic Silk Road over a 14 month period in 2011, won the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Award, the 2019 Edna Staebler Award.
This life-long inspiration to explore led her to bike across the Silk Road, which she documented in her first book Lands of Lost Borders.Ī graduate of the University of North Carolina in the U.S, she studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She viewed the Earth as having been thoroughly explored and charted before her lifetime, so she set her eyes on another planet. Harris was born in Ontario and grew up dreaming of exploring Mars. Kate Harris (born in 1982) is a Canadian author.
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