Arctic Dreams

by LOPEZ, BARRY

• ISBN13: 9780375727481
• ISBN10: 0375727485
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-02
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his unique meditation on how the landscape can shape our imagination, desires, and dreams. Its prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes,Arctic Dreamsis nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature.

Author Biography

Barry Lopez is the author of six works of nonfiction and eight works of fiction. His writing appears regularly in <i>Harper's</i>, <i>The Paris Review, DoubleTake, </i>and<i> The Georgia Review</i>. He is the recipient of a National Book Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other honors. He lives in western Oregon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Author's Note	xvii
Preface	xix
Prologue: Pond's Bay, Baffin Island	1	(14)
Arktikos	15	(27)
Banks Island: Ovibos moschatus	42	(34)
Tornarssuk: Ursus maritimus	76	(43)
Lancaster Sound: Monodon monoceros	119	(33)
Migration: The Corridors of Breath	152	(52)
Ice and Light	204	(48)
The Country of the Mind	252	(50)
The Intent of Monks	302	(53)
A Northern Passage	355	(52)
Epilogue: Saint Lawrence Island, Bering Sea	407	(10)
Notes	417	(4)
Maps	421	(6)
Appendices	427	(18)
Bibliography	445	(4)
Index	449