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Winner of the National Book Award and a best-seller upon publication in 1986, Arctic Dreams is now acknowledged as a classic, a book that re-defined the genre of nature writing. In prose of transparent beauty, Lopez celebrates the Arctic landscape and the animals and people that live there. HContinue
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lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010
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Nature made the house
Many of the 17 ‘essays’ in Barry Lopez’s About This Life are fragments of memoir: snapshots of the day of a mother’s death from cancer; early road trips up and down America; Jesuit prep school in Manhattan; childhood years in California; a tributary ... (read full critics)
lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- eBook 496 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1448103126
- ISBN-13: 9781448103126
- Publisher: Random House
- Pub date: Aug 26, 2011
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback and Paperback
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