View Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams Pics. Read 449 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Imagination and desire in a northern landscape, barry lopez, whose earlier writings about nature, in such books as desert notes:

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I subsequently read it while walking the west coast. These two incidents came back to me often in the four or five years that i traveled in the arctic. This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the far north is a classic of natural history the arctic is a perilous place.

Its prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes, arctic dreams is nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature.

Its strangely stunted forest, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its written in prose as memorably pure as the land it describes, arctic dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams. Barry lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including horizon; Arctic dreams, for which he received the national book award; The other, a dream gone awry, reminded me of the long human struggle, mental and physical, to come to terms with the far north.