Horizon / Barry Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-2020, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-2020--Travel.

Lopez, Barry Holstun.

Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-2020.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Travel--Social aspects.

Travel.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 572 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Summary:

"From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters-human, animal, and natural-that have shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us nearly from pole to pole-from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth-and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as "one of our finest writers," gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that moves indelibly, immersively, through his 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. As he takes us on these myriad travels, 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 he forges along the way 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 and frustration along with humanity and hope-a book that makes you see the world differently, and that is the crowning achievement by one of America's great thinkers and most humane voices."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: Looking for a Ship p. 7

1 Mamaroneck p. 9

2 To Go/To See p. 17

3 Remember p. 29

4 Talismans p. 34

Cape Foulweather p. 49

Coast of Oregon

Eastern Shore of the North Pacific Ocean

Western North America

Skraeling Island p. 131

Mouth of Alexandra Fjord

East Coast of Ellesmere Island

Nunavut

Canada

Puerto Ayora p. 205

Isla Santa Cruz

Archipiélago de Colón

Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Jackal Camp p. 267

Turkwel River Basin

Western Lake Turkana Uplands

Eastern Equatorial Africa

Port Arthur to Botany Bay p. 345

State of Tasmania

Northern Shore of the Southern Ocean

Southeastern Australia

State of New South Wales

Western Shore of the South Pacific

Graves Nunataks to Port Famine Road p. 425

Queen Maud Mountains

Central Transantarctic Mountains

Northern Edge of the Polar Plateau

Antarctica

Brunswick Peninsula

Shore of the Strait of Magellan

Southern Chile.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [519]-529] and index.

ISBN:

9780394585826

0394585828

OCLC:

1044539057