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
“At once reverie and urgent appeal, Horizon is beautiful and
brutal—a story of the universal human condition, set in some of the
most distinctive places on earth.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Epic. . . . The crowning achievement of a legendary scribe.”
—Outside Magazine
“Sublime, dreamlike. . . . Lopez is a welcoming host as he brings
you across the world.”
—NPR
“Literary journalism, memoir and travelogue: so compelling it
deserves its own genre.”
—The Washington Post
“Extraordinary. . . . A capacious blend of popular science,
travel writing and autobiography.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“A contemporary epic. . . . Superb . . . challenging and symphonic;
a beautiful book, 35 years in the writing, but still speaking to
the present moment.”
—The Guardian
“An interrogative autobiography. . . . In Horizon, Lopez is
remapping the world, revisiting places of surprising starkness and
beauty, bring[ing] enormous questions down to earth by rooting them
in a series of landscapes.”
—Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books
“Part autobiography, part cri de coeur . . . Lopez writes
with fervid wonder and fascination about all he’s seen and
experienced.”
—The Atlantic
“A touchstone author whose nonfiction and fiction alike have
inspired artists in multiple disciplines. . . . Lopez’s visionary
descriptions of landscapes are startling in their immediacy.”
—The Seattle Times
“Subtle, monumental, rich, spare: this opus by acclaimed
writer Lopez contains and transcends contradictions.”
—Nature
“Lopez is a master of the big question. . . . He writes with
transporting precision.”
—Christian Science Monitor
“Epic. . . . Lopez is a thoughtful and careful curator,
sweeping the planet to understand not only its topography but also
the cultural geography of humans and the relationship between the
two.
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“An essential voice in American writing. Barry Lopez’s
stories of inquiry and discovery are gloriously riveting, bringing
the reader into a research boat, an archaeological site, a
night-tent conversation, water forty feet under the edge of an ice
shelf. At each place where he turns his eye and mind, something is
learned of existence’s richness and meaning. A master work. This
book is a map to treasures everywhere buried.”
—Jane Hirshfield
“I am astonished by this book, and delighted by its deep
musicality. The scope and depth of Horizon are staggering—it is
symphonic in scale and tone, and as contrapuntal as a Bach
fugue.
—John Luther Adams, Pulitzer-Prize winning composer
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