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Arctic Dreams by: Barry Lopez List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $5.12 You Save: $10.88 (68%)as of 05/22/2013 16:36 EDT Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
EAN: 9780375727481 ISBN: 0375727485 Item Dimensions: Label: Vintage Languages: Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: October 02, 2001 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: October 02, 2001 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his unique meditation on how the landscape can shape our imagination, desires, and dreams. Its prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature. Amazon.com Review: Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. Average Rating: none
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