Arctic Dreams

Arctic Dreams
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2024-07-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1668080028

Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forests, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of its indigenous communities, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, mystery, and wonder. Written in prose as pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.

Horizon

Horizon
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0525656219

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.

The Spectral Arctic

The Spectral Arctic
Author: Shane McCorristine
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1787352455

Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.

Of Wolves and Men

Of Wolves and Men
Author: Barry Holstun Lopez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2004
Genre: Gray wolf
ISBN: 0743249364

Crow and Weasel

Crow and Weasel
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 85
Release: 1998-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374416133

"A brilliantly written and totally original New World adventure" (Jean Craighead George), about two young men of the Northern Plains "who undertake a journey through unexplored wilderness to the tundra and back" ("The New Yorker"). Full color.

Arctic Dreams and Nightmares

Arctic Dreams and Nightmares
Author: Alootook Ipellie
Publisher: Penticton, B.C. : Theytus Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN:

20 short stories accompanied by pen and ink drawings interpreting the mythological and contemporary world of this Inuk artist/author.

The Writer's Portable Mentor

The Writer's Portable Mentor
Author: Priscilla Long
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 082636005X

Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.

Arctic Dreams

Arctic Dreams
Author: Carole Gerber
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781580890748

An Eskimo mother talks to her sleepy child as they go on a journey through the peaceful world of the Arctic and its animals.

Dream Flights on Arctic Nights

Dream Flights on Arctic Nights
Author: Brooke Hartman
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1513261908

Follow a child's dreamy flight through the Arctic and discover the animals that live there, from the wolves prowling through the snow to the goats and sheep leaping across mountains, to walrus and sea lions lying on icebergs. Children's Book Review, Best Picture Books of 2019 "Dramatic rhythm, matched by spectacular linocut illustrations with black backgrounds, glowing colors, and exaggerated perspectives that suggest a surreal dream world. The child has beige skin and dark hair and eyes. The setting is indicated by the title and arctic wildlife and by a simple map of the Arctic Ocean on the wall of the child's cozy bedroom. This stunning interpretation of a fascinating region soars with polished poetry and striking, memorable art." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "The deep desire to fly inspires a child's Alaskan dream in this lushly illustrated rhyming book. . . The simple rhymes match well with the linocut illustrations by Zerbetz, whose thick lines give dimension to colorful stars and beasts. The images seem to leap from the page." —WSU Magazine At night, just as the moon climbs high, I make a wish that I could fly. Told in singsong rhymes and colorfully illustrated with gorgeous linocut art, Dream Flights on Arctic Nights is a beautiful bedtime story for children to explore the Arctic before drifting off to sleep.