Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

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Barry Lopez

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Description: Amazon.com Review Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons ... (more)

Manufacturer: Charles Scribner & Sons
Release date: 1 March 1986
ISBN-10 : 0684185784 | ISBN-13: 9780684185781

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