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Horizon (Hardcover)
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Horizon (Hardcover)
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'The greatest nature writer in the world ... He is also the
greatest travel writer ... [an] astounding new memoir' Sunday Times
'Horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' Robert Macfarlane,
author of Underland From the author of the classic Arctic Dreams
comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the
encounters that have shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us nearly
from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the earth's
most remote regions - and across decades of lived experience, Barry
Lopez gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a
book that describes his travels to six regions of the world: from
Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galapagos to the Kenyan
desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the
ice shelves of Antarctica. Lopez also probes the long history of
humanity's quests and explorations, including the prehistoric
peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the
colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era
Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who
found his way into isolationist Japan, and today's ecotourists in
the tropics. Throughout his journeys - to some of the hottest,
coldest, and most desolate places on the globe - and via
friendships with scientists, archaeologists, artists and local
residents, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken
world. Horizon is a revelatory, epic work that voices concern but
also hope - a book that makes you see the world differently, and
that is the crowning achievement by one of America's great voices.
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