Crossing Open Ground

Crossing Open Ground

by Barry Lopez
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 25/06/2013

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National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays


In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he’s traversing the Arctic tundra or the deserts of the American Southwest, recalling the devastating beaching of forty-one sperm whales along the Oregon coast or reveling in the remarkable migrations of wild geese, Lopez shows readers the world’s special places, its remarkable people, and stunning natural events. He thoughtfully explores humankind’s place in this vast natural scheme, and opens our eyes to its breathtaking complexity.


This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

ISBN:
9781480409170
9781480409170
Category:
Natural history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
25-06-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Open Road Media
Barry Lopez

Barry Lopez is the author of two collections of essays; several story collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist, and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributes regularly to both American and foreign journals and has travelled to more than 70 countries to conduct research. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and has been honoured by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work.

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