Arctic Dreams

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Call Number: 508.98 Lo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Earth Sciences / Lopez, Barry
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Earth Sciences / Lopez, Barry	4-week checkout	Due 04-30-2024

Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1986.
Pond's Bay, Baffin Island -- Arktikos -- Banks Island: Ovibos moschatus -- Tornarssuk: Ursus maritimus -- Lancaster Sound: Monodon monoceros -- Migration: the corridors of breath -- Ice and light -- The country of the mind -- The intent of monks -- A northern passage -- Saint Lawrence Island, Bering Sea.
This book is an account of the history, ecology, and mystique of the arctic region. The author offers a thorough examination of this obscure world, its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his unique meditation on how the landscape can shape our imagination, desires, and dreams. Its prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes, and is nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A Love Letter to the Far North submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on July 21, 2020, 11:14pm
Lopez writes lyrically about musk oxen and narwhals, pack ice and phytoplankton.

Although published 20 years ago, it's overwhelming to apprehend how, in the intervening decades, much of the geography, topography, terrain this book describes has been irreversibly altered by climate change.