About this Item
INSCRIBED & dated in 1987 by Barry Lopez on the half-title page to United States Senator from Oregon Mark Hatfield. "Washington, D.C. September 16, 1987. For Sen. Hatfield, with my very best wishes, and the hope that you are moved to speak in defense of this extraordinary landscape. Barry Lopez, Finn Rock. Oregon." Near fine in a fine dj. (Light foxing at top edge, with a tiny trace on other edges, including edges of creme-colored cloth) A wonderful association connecting a committed partisan of all things natural, and a politician whose stalwart efforts on behalf of natural conservancy was his legacy over 30 years in the Senate. (B). Seller Inventory # 310615
Bibliographic Details
Title: ARCTIC DREAMS: IMAGINATION AND DESIRE IN A ...
Publisher: SCRIBNERS., NY
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
It is a book which could be compared to Chatwin's The Songlines for its combination of travelogue and poetic vision. Yet the beauty of the prose and the thought-provoking evocations of modern culture's shifting relationship with the environment are in a league of their own. Here are sparkling descriptions of the lives of caribou, muskoxen, polar bears and narwhals, and extraordinarily moving passages which meditate on the nature of our relationship with the world, the inter-dependence of ideas, desire and science and the possibility of dignity and compassion in the contemporary world.
It is a measure of the respect which Lopez has for his subject that his book exemplifies the supreme importance which he ascribes to the ethics of respect in the face of all existential paradox:
"There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light".--Toby Green
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