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Horizon

By Lopez , Barry Holstun

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2019
ISBN
9780394585826, 9780525656210, 0394585828
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
16 MB (16589099 bytes)
Series
A Barzoi book
Edition
First edition
Pages
572 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters—human, animal, and natural—that have shaped an extraordinary life.Taking us nearly from pole to pole—from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth—and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as "one of our finest writers," gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that moves indelibly, immersively, through his travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. As he takes us on these myriad travels, Lopez also probes the long history of humanity's quests and explorations, including the prehistoric...

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