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Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Category: Travel
This title comes with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane. Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises. A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes. Home to millions of diverse animals and people. The stage to massive migrations by l ...Show more
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Holstun Lopez
Category: Travel
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 its icy shores.
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World - Essays by Barry Lopez; Rebecca Solnit (Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction
A "lyrical" (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists. "Mesmerizing . . . a master observer . . . whose insight and moral clar ...Show more
Horizon by Barry Lopez
Category: Travel
Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the earth?s most remote regions - and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that describes his travels to six regions of the world- from Western Oregon to t ...Show more
Horizon by Barry Lopez
Category: Biography
From the National Book Award-winning author of the classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us from pole to pole and across decades of lived experienc ...Show more
Horizon by Barry Lopez
Category: Travel
Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the earth's most remote regions -- and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that describes his travels to six regions of the world- from Western Oregon to ...Show more
Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez
Category: Travel
The 1978 classic on man and nature returns in this special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, featuring a new afterword that assesses how far we've advanced in our understanding of other creatures and our efforts to conserve the environment. Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spec ...Show more
The Gift of Birds - True Encounters with Avian Spirits by Amy Greimann Carlson (Editor); Larry Habegger (Editor); Louise Erdrich (Contribution by); Barry Lopez (Contribution by); Diane Ackerman (Contribution by); Terry Tempest Williams (Contribution by); Peter Matthiessen (Contribution by)
Category: Nature | Series: Travelers' Tales Guides
Whether it roots us in our own backyard or takes us across continents, watching birds calls us to stillness and demands our keen attention to the details that flicker around us. This collection of stories will appeal to bird lovers everywhere.
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