I speak with Kate Harris, author of the captivating travel memoir Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road. We discuss living off-grid in Atlin, British Columbia; Kate’s complex relationship with Marco Polo and the famed and mythologized explorers from the “Old World”; and her life-expanding decision to traverse the famed Silk Road by bike with her childhood friend.

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