![]() ![]() Previously the pair had cycled through Western China for four months in 2006. Unable to realize her childhood dream of travelling to Mars, she decided to trace Marco Polo's Silk Road by bicycle in 2011, accompanied by her childhood friend Mel(issa) Yule. Kate Harris 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. Not very many first-time authors get blurbage from the likes of Pico Iyer ("It's a modern classic.") and Barry Lopez, but then not very many can claim they live off the grid, outside of Atlin, on the Yukon border, next to a glacier. ![]()
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