Vintage, 1999. Paperback. The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding 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 established.....
Vintage Books USA, 2001. Paperback. Winner of the National Book AwardThis 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.....
Vintage, 1989. Paperback. In Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves the same invigorating spell as in his National Book Award-winning classic Arctic Dreams. Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures. Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a......
Vintage, 2004. Paperback. In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez--the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers--evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds.....
Vintage, 2020. Paperback. 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.....
Vintage, 2001. Paperback. 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 17th-century Peruvian.....
Scribner Book Company, 1979. Paperback. Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity's complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging from fear to admiration and affection. Lopez's classic.....
Vintage, 1999. Paperback. Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain. --San Francisco ChronicleA flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York. . ....
San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2006. Illustrated by Molly O'Halloren. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, grey cloth, xxiv, 449pp, bbliographic note, indexes of terms, names, places, short bios of the contributors. Signed by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney on the title page. In this work, Barry Lopez has asked 45.....
Trinity University Press, 2013. Paperback. Hailed by book reviewers as a "masterpiece," "gorgeous and fascinating," and "sheer pleasure," Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape was published in fall 2006 in hardcover. It was met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, this.....
Harper Perennial, 1990. Paperback. Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire.....
Trinity University Press, 2014. Hardcover. The six stories in Outside showcase Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our exterior and interior landscapes, these stories offer profound insight into the relationships between.....
Orion Society, 2005. Paperback. Terrorism. Homeland Security. Patriotism. Since September 11, 2001, these terms have emerged as a fundamental part of our cultural lexicon, with their unsaid assumptions and attendant emotions being used to inspire and buttress a varied set of cultural, political, and military responses to the events of.....
