Barry Holstun Lopez

A portrait of the landscape, animals, and people of the Arctic captures the beauty and peril of this harsh region and explains what an understanding of this unknown land means to the modern, urbanized world.

Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

Arctic Dreams

Jayme Cochrane

One of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read.

Barry Lopez

‘A master nature writer’ (New York Times) provides the ultimate natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic landscape. The author of Horizon’s classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination. 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 land, sea and air. The setting of epic exploratory voyages. In crystalline prose, Lopez captures the magic of the Arctic: the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man’s imagination and ambition for centuries. ‘The Arctic dreamland seen and described by a writer of rare perception and poetic descriptive power... The pages sparkle with Arctic light’ Scotsman

Molly Rae Stacy

An excellent look into the beauty that is the arctic. I learned so much.

A portrait of the landscape, animals, and people of the Arctic captures the beauty and peril of this harsh region and explains what an understanding of this unknown land means to the modern, urbanized world

Melody Izard

The Arctic has seemed a desolate and inhospitable place for its would be conquerors over the many years since it's "discovery". The Eskimos were simply a stupid nuisance and the animals dangerous and only good for their furs or their blubber or their tusks. 

Oil! Furs! Gold! That's all its good for. 

Put golden handcuffs on the workers if you must, in the form of high pay, fitness centers, movie theaters and readily available pornography - but there is money to be made and don't stand in our way. 
 
Arctic dreams hopes to plant seeds of understanding about this complicated, cold world and its people and animals. This book is a quick recounting of the history and biology of that land in the far north with the hopes that it's not too late to put breaks on the greed that will surely destroy this pristine landscape and its inhabitants.

Darcy Lambert

Evan Huang

Katie Day

This New York Times–bestselling exploration of the Arctic, a National Book Award winner, is “one of the finest books ever written about the far North” (Publishers Weekly). “The nation’s premier nature writer” travels to a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human history (San Francisco Chronicle). The Arctic has for centuries been a destination for the most ambitious explorers—a place of dreams, fears, and awe-inspiring spectacle. This “dazzling” account by the author of Of Wolves and Men takes readers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of one of the world’s last frontiers (The New York Times). Based on Barry Lopez’s years spent traveling the Arctic regions in the company of Eskimo hunting parties and scientific expeditions alike, Arctic Dreams investigates the unique terrain of the human mind, thrown into relief against the vastness of the tundra and the frozen ocean. Eye-opening and profoundly moving, it is a magnificent appreciation of how wilderness challenges and inspires us. Renowned environmentalist and author of Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey has called Arctic Dreams “a splendid book . . . by a man who is both a first-rate writer and an uncompromising defender of the wild country and its native inhabitants”—and the New Yorker hails it as a “landmark” work of travel writing. A vivid, thoughtful, and atmospheric read, it has earned multiple prizes, including the National Book Award, the Christopher Medal, the Oregon Book Award, and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Arctic Dreams Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

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