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About This Life Journeys on the Threshold of Memory

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ISBN-10: 0679754474

ISBN-13: 9780679754473

Edition: 1998

Authors: Barry Lopez

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The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man. With the publication of his best-selling Of Wolves and Men, and with the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez established himself as that rare writer whose every book is an event, for both critics and his devoted readership. Now, in About This Life, he takes us on a literal and figurative journey across the terrain of autobiography, assembling essays of great wisdom and insight. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galápagos, enigmatic Bonaire); a naturalist's…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/27/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.93" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.550

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.

Introduction
A Voice
Out of Country
Searching for Depth in Bonaire
A Short Passage in Northern Hokkaido
Orchids on the Volcanoes
Informed by Indifference
Flight
Indwelling
Apologia
In a Country of Light, Among Animals
The American Geographies
Effleurage: The Stroke of Fire
The Whaleboat
Remembrance
Replacing Memory
A Passage of the Hands
Learning to See
An Opening Quartet
Death
Murder
Speed
Theft
Acknowledgments