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About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory

01 May

“Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar.” This advice, given to a father whose daughter wants to learn to write, is the organizing principle behind Barry Lopez’s latest collection of essays and also the central theme behind his life as a writer. Author of 12 acclaimed books of nature writing, including the National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams, Lopez is one of our most eloquent masters of the nearly lost art of paying attention. In this volume, a travelogue of journeys both inward and outward, he brings the same careful scrutiny to bear on the mystery of his own life and its interactions with the natural world.

Lopez has always been interested in tearing down artificial divides between nature and culture, landscape and identity, and nowhere does he do so more powerfully than in About This Life. These essays cover ground from the remote (in the group of travel essays entitled “Out of Country”) to the familiar (“Indwelling”), the personal to the archetypal (“Remembrance” and “An Opening Quartet”). Whether he’s joyriding around the world with air cargo, performing burials for animals found dead by the side of the road, or lamenting the commodification of the American landscape, Lopez writes with a surgeon’s precision, a musician’s ear, and a painter’s eye for beauty found in unexpected places.

About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory is available at Amazon for $10.88. To order click here.

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Crossing Open Ground

01 May

The author travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures.

Crossing Open Ground is available at Amazon for $11.86. To order click here.

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Arctic Dreams

01 May

Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call “last frontiers.” Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants–narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them–Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published.

Arctic Dreams is available at Amazon for $10.20. To order click here.

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Resistance

01 May

From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction–a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly “parties of interest” to the government tell their stories.
A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses to seek a new understanding of compassion rather than revenge. A carpenter traveling in India changes his life when he explodes in an act of violence out of proportion to its cause. The beginning of the end of a man’s lifelong search for coherence is sparked by a Montana grizzly. A man blinded in the war in Vietnam wrestles with the implications of his actions as a soldier–and with innocence, both lost and regained.
Punctuated with haunting images by acclaimed artist Alan Magee, Resistance is powerful fiction with enormous significance for our times.

Resistance is available at Amazon for $11.07. To order click here.

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