Arctic Dreams
Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Description: xxix, 464 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Winner of the National Book Award
This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.
The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forest, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez's passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of the indigenous people, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, beguilement, and wonder.
Written in prose as memorably pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.
Look for Barry Lopez's new book, Horizon , available now.
This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.
The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forest, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez's passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of the indigenous people, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, beguilement, and wonder.
Written in prose as memorably pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.
Look for Barry Lopez's new book, Horizon , available now.
Subjects:
Natural history -- Arctic regions.
Arctic regions -- Description and travel.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Natural history -- Arctic regions.
Arctic regions -- Description and travel.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Target Audience: 1300L
ISBN:
0375727485
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| Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
| SCIENCE Ecology Lop | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-448).
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-448).
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1986.
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