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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989, 1978
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In traveling through the American Southwest and Alaska, Lopez finds new, once hidden, meanings in natural phenomenon -- flocks of geese and Arctic fox tracks -- and remnants of lost human cultures. The land and humans, he concludes, share a strong spiritual bond that echoes and impacts the universe's great rhyme of life. Elegantly told against a haunting and beautiful melodic backdrop, Crossing Open Ground propels us into a new posture -- indeed a...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xxix, 464 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is an account of the history, ecology, and mystique of the arctic region. The author offers a thorough examination of this obscure world, its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his unique meditation on how the landscape can shape our imagination, desires,...
3) Horizon
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 572 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the author's travels to six regions of the world and the extraordinary encounters with people, animals, and natural elements that shaped his life.
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