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Availability:In StockContributor:Barry LopezPublish date:2004-06-08Pages:178
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400075126ISBN-10:1400075122UPC:9781400075126Book Category:Nature, FictionBook Subcategory:Essays, Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:7.98 x 5.30 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SCS0YXJW95
In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez--the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers--evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.

An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean in order to forge an indigenous connection to the American landscape. A paleontologist is haunted by visions of wildlife in a vacant lot in Manhattan. In simple, crystalline prose, Lopez evokes a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, and a deep compassion for the human predicament.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400075126ISBN-10:1400075122UPC:9781400075126Book Category:Nature, FictionBook Subcategory:Essays, Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:7.98 x 5.30 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SCS0YXJW95
Barry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including Horizon; several story collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist; and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020.

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