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Arctic Dreams
Av Barry Lopez
Häftad, 2014
159 kr
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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'A master nature writer' (New York Times) provides the ultimate natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic landscape.The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY …
Of Wolves and Men
Av Barry Lopez
Häftad, 1979
289 kr
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"The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you."In this astonishing classic, Barry Lopez draws upon an impressive range of natural history, scientific fieldwork, and traditional folklore—along with his own personal experience living …
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
Essays
Av Barry Lopez
Häftad, 2023
159 kr
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An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveller and unrivalled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day in 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home and the community around it – a tragic reminder of …
Horizon
Av Barry Lopez
Häftad, 2020
293 kr
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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s …
About This Life
Av Barry Lopez
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: "Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar." This collection of essays stems directly from that philosophy. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored …
Arctic Dreams
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2024
199 kr
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Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, 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 …
Of Wolves and Men
Av Barry Lopez
Inbunden, 2004
500 kr
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Originally published in 1978, this special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the National Book Award finalist includes an entirely new afterword in which the author considers the current state of knowledge about wolves and recent efforts to reintroduce wolves to their former habitats in American …
Resistance
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2007
126 kr
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams , a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction–a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly “parties of …
Vintage Lopez
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2010
236 kr
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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “Lopez has such great narrative skill and uses his words so carefully the simple intensity is often nearly overwhelming.” — The Oregonian Barry Lopez is an …
Rediscovery of North America
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2011
109 kr
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Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true …
About This Life
Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2011
189 kr
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The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man. With the publication of his best-selling Of Wolves and Men, and with the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez …
Light Action in the Caribbean
Stories
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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Moving from fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible characters doing things they shouldn''t do for reasons that are mysterious and irreducible. In "The Letters of Heaven," a packet of recently discovered …
Field Notes
The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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In this new collection of twelve stories, one of our most admired writers evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past. with nature. In these stories, we find men or women -- sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendently well grounded -- …
Rediscovery of North America
Av Barry Lopez
Inbunden, 1991
322 kr
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" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of much of two continents, reverberates in our history down to the present century. So contends prize-winning writer Barry Lopez in this beautifully written …
Arctic Dreams
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2014
125 kr
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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'A master nature writer' (New York Times) provides the ultimate natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic landscape.The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY …
Horizon
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2019
125 kr
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'Horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' Robert Macfarlane, author of UnderlandFrom the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that shaped an extraordinary life.Taking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern …
Winter Count
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2013
33 kr
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Stories that "celebrate the web of nature that holds the world together" from the New York Times–bestselling author of Of Wolves and Men (The Philadelphia Inquirer).Barry Lopez, the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams, has written eloquently on what it means to be human, taking the …
Crossing Open Ground
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2013
15 kr
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National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays.In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and …
Desert Notes and River Notes
Stories
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2013
33 kr
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Two volumes of fiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams: "Lopez feels a deep spiritual connection to the natural world." —San Francisco ChronicleTo National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez, the desert and the river are landscapes alive with poetry, mystery, …
Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter
Coyote Builds North America
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2013
171 kr
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One of the most enduring characters in Native American mythology comes boldly and brilliantly alive in sixty-eight tales of magic and wonder from National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez.According to Native American legend, Old Man Coyote created the earth and humankind, arranged the heavens, …
Desert Notes and River Notes
Stories
Av Barry Lopez
E-bok, 2013
148 kr
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Two volumes of fiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams : “Lopez feels a deep spiritual connection to the natural world.” — San Francisco Chronicle To National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez, the desert and the river are landscapes alive with poetry, mystery, …
