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 Dreamsis nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature.

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.