Harris and her cycling partner “spent months in each region learning the lay of the land, tracking migratory species like Marco Polo sheep and Saiga antelope across their transboundary ranges, and interviewing local people, wildlife biologists, and government officials-all to better understand how borders impact the integrity of wild species and spaces.”Īs a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, Kate earned a Master’s in the history of science, focusing on exploration and geopolitics in contested mountain borderlands. The central theme of the book revolves around borders, “the boundaries that atlases depict and armies enforce,” she said.
The two of them, Harris writes, traveled 10,000 kilometers of alpine desert ecosystems between Turkey and India, or in her words, “From the Caucasus to the Karakoran mountains, and on the Ustyurt, Pamir, and Tibetan plateaus in between.”
This trek was accomplished late last year in the company of another female cyclist. A grant of $3,000 will support work on her upcoming book, Cycling Silk, which encapsulates a ten-month-long bicycle trip through ten countries that lie along the ancient “Silk Road” of Marco Polo fame. BLUFF, UT – The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers has chosen Kate Harris of Vancouver, BC, as the recipient of the seventh annual Desert Writers Award.
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