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Arctic Dreams

National Book Award Winner

Author Barry Lopez
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$19.00 US
Knopf | Vintage
5.13"W x 7.98"H x 1.03"D  
On sale Oct 02, 2001 | 496 Pages | 9780375727481
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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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.

“Jubilant…Barry Lopez lavishes his discoveries into a portfolio of delights.”–The New York Times Book Review

“Wonderfully informed and evocative…. Keen observation given shape with language that is deft and vivid.”–Chicago Tribune

“Rich, abundant, vigorously composed.”–The Boston Globe
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Barry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including Horizon; several story collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist; and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020. 

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“Extraordinary. . . . A master nature writer.” —The New York Times Book Review

“One of those landmark works of travel writing.” —The New Yorker

“Dazzling. . . . Treats the distant, snowy world of the Arctic as a place that exists not only in the mathematics of geography but also in the terra incognita of our imaginations.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Lopez is. . .the most important living writer about wilderness. . . . [Arctic Dreams is] his masterpiece.” —The Guardian

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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.

“Jubilant…Barry Lopez lavishes his discoveries into a portfolio of delights.”–The New York Times Book Review

“Wonderfully informed and evocative…. Keen observation given shape with language that is deft and vivid.”–Chicago Tribune

“Rich, abundant, vigorously composed.”–The Boston Globe

Author

© David Liittschwager
Barry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including Horizon; several story collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist; and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020. 

www.barrylopez.com View titles by Barry Lopez

Praise

“Extraordinary. . . . A master nature writer.” —The New York Times Book Review

“One of those landmark works of travel writing.” —The New Yorker

“Dazzling. . . . Treats the distant, snowy world of the Arctic as a place that exists not only in the mathematics of geography but also in the terra incognita of our imaginations.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Lopez is. . .the most important living writer about wilderness. . . . [Arctic Dreams is] his masterpiece.” —The Guardian

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