5/26/2023 0 Comments Land of lost borders kate harrisForget charting maps, naming peaks, leaving footprints on another planet: What she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. But somewhere in between sneaking illegally across Tibet, studying the history of science and exploration at Oxford and staring down a microscope for a doctorate at MIT, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. This trip was just a simulacrum of exploration, she thought, not the thing itself - a little adventure to pass the time until she could launch for outer space. Well along this path, Harris set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule. So she looked beyond this planet, vowing to become a scientist and go to Mars. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth. As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved - that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician, with a flair for basic science and endless slogging - had gone extinct.
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