· HORIZON. by Barry Lopez ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma. Distinguished natural history writer and explorer Lopez (Outside, , etc.) builds a winning memoir around books, voyages, and biological and anthropological observations. “Traveling, despite the technological innovations that have brought cultural homogenization to much of the world, helps the curious and attentive itinerant . Book Summary. A vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters - human, animal, and natural - that have shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth - and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as "one of . · Horizon by Barry Lopez is published The Bodley Head (£25). To order a copy go to www.doorway.ru Free UK pp on all online orders over £Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.
Pan. In this epic travelogue, nature writer Barry Lopez's slow but steady observations of a magnificent but damaged planet mirror the slow but steady exploitation of its resources and the extent of human suffering such a feat requires. Horizon is a book with no central horizon, and for that we should be grateful. 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. "Barry Lopez is a straight-up magnificent writer. To read Horizon is to be transported to wondrous landscapes far beyond the pale, and thereby obtain an astounding perspective on our increasingly uncertain www.doorway.ru expresses faith that our species can avert annihilation by investing 'more deeply in the philosopher's cardinal virtues' courage, justice, reverence, and compassion — virtues.
Book Summary. A vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters - human, animal, and natural - that have shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth - and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as "one of our finest writers," gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that. Horizon by Barry Lopez is published The Bodley Head (£25). To order a copy go to www.doorway.ru Free UK pp on all online orders over £ Horizon by Barry Lopez, synopsis: From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters–human, animal, and natural–that have shaped an extraordinary life.
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