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Arctic Dreams National Book Award Winner

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ISBN-10: 0375727485

ISBN-13: 9780375727481

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Barry Lopez

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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.
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.99" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 0.880

Barry Lopez was the author of two collections of essays; 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 travelled to more than 70 countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and has been honoured by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work.

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Preface
Prologue: Pond's Bay, Baffin Island
Arktikos
Banks Island: Ovibos moschatus
Tornarssuk: Ursus maritimus
Lancaster Sound: Monodon monoceros
Migration: The Corridors of Breath
Ice and Light
The Country of the Mind
The Intent of Monks
A Northern Passage
Epilogue: Saint Lawrence Island, Bering Sea
Notes
Maps
Appendices
Bibliography
Index