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Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America. With a new afterword by the author

Derek Lundy’s travelogue Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America vividly describes his motorbike journey on a Kawasaki KLR 650cc along the two borders separating the contiguous United States from the neighboring countries to the south and to the north. Drawing on selected scholarly publications from the realm of border studies, such as works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Oscar J. Martínez, Lundy’s work is not only a piece of fascinating creative non-fiction, but an important contribution to a better understanding of border dynamics and to more awareness of border issues for a wider public. Lundy succinctly encapsulates the changes along the Canada–US border, the increased security paradigm, and compares the US–Mexico and the Canada–US borders in a profound yet accessible manner.