A portrait of the Arctic that celebrates the landscape, wildlife and people of the vast and mysterious region. Above all, it is a story of light - solar and lunar rings, halos and coronas, the aurora borealis, and the distant mountain that is actually a looming and convincing mirage.
Considered Lopez's finest book, this is part adventure tale and part meditation on the nature of exploration. Lopez writes about the aurora borealis, polar bears, killer whales, icebergs, and the nobility of the indigenous people of the Arctic. Winner of the American Book Award.
Originally published in 1978, this special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the National Book Award finalist includes an entirely new afterword in which the author considers the current state of knowledge about wolves and recent efforts to reintroduce wolves to their former habitats in American wilderness areas. Humankind's relationship with ...
Barry Lopez, winner of the 1986 American Book Award for 'Arctic Dreams, ' weaves the same invigorating spell in 'Crossing Open Ground.' Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a re-enchantment with the world that is vital to our sense of place, our well-being...our very survival.
Five hundred years after Columbus' landing in America, the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and Crossing Open Ground delivers a devastating assessment of the explorer's legacy and takes the first step toward its redemption.
Using a modern fable of two Indian braves who undertake a journey through the landscape of the northern tundra and meet their native brothers, the author illustrates the wisdom to be gained from the natural world and from resolving inner conflicts. From the author of "Arctic Dreams".
Barry Lopez explores the nature of resistance in a short-story format in which nine people who can be classified as "resisters"--who have defied their governments in some way--present their testimonials. Ranging from India to France to Montana, Lopez's stories explore the nature of resistance and its consequences, and each is illustrated with a ...
Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez -- National Book Award-winning author of "Arctic ...
This text is about the moral and emotional upheavel that Barry Lopez felt at removing all the dead animals he found on the road, when he travelled from Oregon to Indiana. It had been a long habit of Lopez to remove these victims from the highways he had journeyed along.
Celebrated nature writer Barry Lopez gives readers a collection of his essays on such topics as the Galapagos, air freight (how do they ship penguins?), and recollections of his early life.
Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, River Notes and Desert Notes . From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools; to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes . . . and the terrible intrusion of man, Lopez allows us to share moments of intense ...
The full range of National Book Award-winner Barry Lopez's talents, in both fiction and nonfiction, and in his poetic evocations of nature, shine in the Prologue from "Arctic Dreams"; in seven short stories; in the essays "Landscape and Narrative," "The American Geographies," "Flight," "Learning to See," and, for the first time in book form, "The ...
Lopez's characters confront mystery--in the shape of secret letters, chance encounters, wild animals--and their lives are spiritually altered by the subtle consequences. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Thirty prominent novelists, journalists, and nature writers celebrate the landscapes that The Nature Conservancy has designated "Last Great Places". As far-ranging in tone and style as the glorious places it extols, Heart of the Land also delivers a heartfelt plea for the preservation of the land and for the hopes, dreams, and wonders it holds.
"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina." --"Los Angeles Times" "Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain." --"San Francisco ...
This book completes the trilogy that began with "Desert Notes" and "River Notes." The 12 stories each trace a character's harmonious but unexpected return to the spiritual elements of nature.
This book completes the trilogy that began with "Desert Notes" and "River Notes." The 12 stories each trace a character's harmonious but unexpected return to the spiritual elements of nature.
This book completes the trilogy that began with "Desert Notes" and "River Notes." The 12 stories each trace a character's harmonious but unexpected return to the spiritual elements of nature.
Outside, where the wind is blowing, we see the world on nature's terms, and we see that it is severely endangered. Turning inward, we seek a sense of connection with nature that could perhaps help us through the current environmental crisis. In this book, some of the most observant Americans of our day explore these outer and inner worlds in ...
Three stories by award-winning author/naturalist Barry Lopez portray the prolonged arrival of a new day, the cycles in the seasonal life of a river, and the timelessness of the river's power to create and destroy.
This is the story of a young man who journeys through the arctic wilderness to find a family of wolverine and learn more about their mysterious power. The young man enters the dream landscape of two wolverine and receives from them the first lessons he will use to shape his adult life.
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