Crossing Open Ground - Hardcover

Lopez, Barry Holstun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684188171 ISBN 13: 9780684188171

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1988

Synopsis

A collection of essays reflecting the ideas of man and landscape includes a statement of the power of landscape as metaphor and an account of the attempt to save thirty-six whales stranded on a beach

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Review:

"He makes the reader at home with himself and the world. Anyone who has ever felt lost should read this book."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
Barry Lopez, winner of the 1996 American Book Award for Arctic Dreams, weaves the same invigorating spell in Crossing Open Ground. Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a re-enchantment with the world that is vital to our sense of place, our well-being..our very survival.
"Lopez looks at flocks of geese, and bull riders, and the tracks of Arctic fox in the snow, and then he tells us about ourselves. He restores to us the name for what it is we want." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Barry Lopez is the best nature writer of our decade, repeatedly reminding us of the ages-old ties between the wild places and humanity." -- Sacramento Bee

About the Author:

Barry Lopez is the author of six works of nonfiction and eight works of fiction. His writing appears regularly in Harper's, The Paris Review, DoubleTake, and The Georgia Review. He is the recipient of a National Book Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other honors. He lives in western Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0684188171
• ISBN 13: 9780684188171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208