Book
Horizon / Barry Lopez.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780394585826 : HRD
- ISBN: 0394585828 : HRD
- Physical Description: xiv, 572 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945- > Travel. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Travel > Social aspects. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.
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Horizon
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Summary
Horizon
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES * NPR * THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author's 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. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity's thirst for exploration, 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. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.
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