Arctic Dreams

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 Dreams is nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature.

• Of Wolves and Men
• A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
• About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
• Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape
• Crossing Open Ground
• Coming into the Country
• The World of the Polar Bear
• Winter Count
• My Life with the Eskimo
• The Arctic Guide: Wildlife of the Far North (Princeton Field Guides)