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Both a travel memoir and nature writing, Arctic Dreams recounts the author’s experiences during four years’ of travel between the Davis and Bering Straits. Lopez hunts with Eskimos, accompanies scientists on field expeditions, and makes his own trips to study the wildlife of the Arctic.
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"Arctic Dreams" is set in the vast and remote expanse of the Arctic, encompassing the northernmost regions of the planet. Lopez delves into the striking landscapes of the Arctic, from the icy tundra and polar seas to the towering icebergs and snow-covered expanses.
14 Μαρ 2019 · Violence bookends Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams. The narrative begins with a gory recreation of an instance of whale slaughter by 19th-century Europeans, who in unholy pursuit of blubber and baleen left in their wake the carcasses of hundreds of flenched whales.
3 Φεβ 2014 · Arctic Dreams was originally published in 1986 and won the US National Book Award for non-fiction. It is a compilation of around 10 essays, which can be read separately, each one focusing on a different subject, as Lopez focuses on the inhabitants, visitors and four-legged, two-winged migrants of a frozen territory in the North.
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape is a 1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez. It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, [1] the Christopher Medal, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, [2] and an Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction.
1 Ιαν 2001 · 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.
