Armchair Travelers Book Group

Are you staying in town this summer but would love to take a vacation? Do you want to travel the world but tend to get seasick? Don't mind the heat, but hate the humidity? Check out Russell Library's Arm Chair Travelers' Book Group, meeting in June, July, and August. 

In August, we will be discussing Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris. 

As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved—to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician—had gone extinct. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth; there was nothing left to be discovered. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars.

In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. Pedaling mile upon mile in some of the remotest places on earth, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. The farther she traveled, the closer she came to a world as wild as she felt within.

Winner of the 2018 Banff Adventure Travel Award and a 2018 Nautilus Award.

Copies of the book will be available at the circulation desk, starting July 10.

Questions? Please contact Kim at kspachman@russelllibrary.org