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A celebration of a strange elemental landscape - of the animals and people who live there; of its history and future; of the dreams it inspires. Above all it is about the relationship between human imagination and the landscape. The author also wrote "Of Wolves and Men".
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The European picture of the Arctic is usually of snow and ice: the inhospitability of the terrain and the frigid wastes of the tundra contribute to our incapacity to imagine ordinary life there. In this magisterial book Barry Lopez draws on this hazy understanding of the far north to provide a compelling account of the land and its hold upon the psyche.
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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
"Jubilant... Barry Lopez lavishes his discoveries into a portfolio of delights."
--The New York Times Book Review "Wonderfully informed and evocative... Keen observation given shape with language that is deft and vivid."
--Chicago Tribune "Rich, abundant, vigorously composed."
--The Boston Globe
--The New York Times Book Review "Wonderfully informed and evocative... Keen observation given shape with language that is deft and vivid."
--Chicago Tribune "Rich, abundant, vigorously composed."
--The Boston Globe
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0330295381
- ISBN 13 9780330295383
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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