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Crossing Open Ground

Barry Lopez

Nominee:Oregon Book Awards -Nonfiction (1988)
In Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves an invigorating spell as he searches for meaning and purpose in the natural environment.

Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures. Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a re-enchantment with the world that is vital to our sense of place, our well-being . . . our very survival.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: May 14th, 1989
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.14in - 5.18in - 0.59in - 0.52lb
  • EAN: 9780679721833
  • Categories: • Essays• Environmental Conservation & Protection - General

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About the Author

BARRY LOPEZ is the author of three collections of essays, including Horizon; 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 contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020.

www.barrylopez.com

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Praise for this book

"Lopez's tone is intimate, inviting, as if his words shared the air with the snap and hiss of a campfire." --The New York Times Book Review

"He makes the reader at home with himself and the world. Anyone who has ever felt lost should read this book." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Lopez looks at flocks of geese, and bull riders, and the tracks of Arctic fox in the snow, and then he tells us about ourselves. He restores to us the name for what it is we want." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"Barry Lopez is the best nature writer of our decade, repeatedly reminding us of the ages-old ties between the wild places and humanity." --Sacramento Bee