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Article: Four years in the Arctic, prospecting for beauty and a sense of wonder
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 16, 1986
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Arctic DreamsBy Barry Lopez. Scribner's. $22.95.
It is as if the Earth's crust had worn paper-thin up there, and
living nature was the most precarious of sparks and liable to go out
at any sudden gust. For Barry Lopez, the arctic territories around
the frozen polar ocean - the Yukon, Alaska, Siberia, Novaya Zemlya,
Svalbard, Greenland - are an enchanted land in a fearful morality
tale.
Arctic Dreams, a record of four years of travel and reflections
above the Arctic Circle, is a number of things. It is a lyrical
geography and natural history, an account of Eskimo life, and a
history of northern explorations.
But mainly, it is a poetic, though sometimes awkward, reflection
about the ...
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Article: BOOKS; BARRY LOPEZ.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);
March 10, 2002 ;
394 words
... ... Miller; Staff Writer FRIDAY: "I am a writer who travels," Barry Lopez has said of himself. His work, both nonfiction and fiction ... Caribbean," a collection of short stories published in 2000; "Arctic Dreams," which won the 1986 National Book Award for nonfiction ...
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