About the book
The essays Barry Lopez gathers here, mixing travel, argument, adventure and memory, together form a jigsaw portrait of the author. Some take him to remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galapagos and Bonaire. One asks why society strips political power from people who know the land intimately, such as small-scale farmers, Native Americans, Eskimos and cowboys. Adventure comes in a series of round-the-world trips with air freight, its cargo ranging from penguins to pianos. Seven memory pieces, lyrical yet unsentimental, are among his most personal writing. Lopez, already a National Book Award winner and the author of Of Wolves and Men and Arctic Dreams, published the collection in 1998.
Tim Ferriss included it in his favorite and most impactful reads of 2021, saying he has fallen in love with Lopez's writing.
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Tim Ferriss (Author)
I have fallen in love with Barry Lopez’s writing.
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