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  • Written by: Barry Lopez
  • Narrated by: James Naughton
  • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Arctic Dreams

Written by: Barry Lopez
Narrated by: James Naughton
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Publisher's Summary

Winner of the National Book Award

This best-selling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.

The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forest, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of the indigenous people, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, beguilement, and wonder.

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 and to haunt our imaginations.

Look for Barry Lopez's new book, Horizon, available now.

©2013 Barry Lopez (P)2019 Random House Audio
Adventure Travel Travel & Tourism Nature & Ecology Environment
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What the critics say

“Extraordinary.... A master nature writer.” (The New York Times Book Review)

“One of those landmark works of travel writing.” (The New Yorker)

“Dazzling.... Treats the distant, snowy world of the Arctic as a place that exists not only in the mathematics of geography but also in the terra incognita of our imaginations.” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)

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Poetic, Peaceful, &Picturesque

From the beautiful land, animals, people and the past, Arctic Dreams is wonderfully poetic & picturesque

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