Barry  Lopez
In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopezâ€”the National Book Awardâ€“winning author of ,Arctic Dreams, and one of our most admired writersâ€”evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature. ,An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean in order to forge an indigenous connection to the American landscape. A paleontologist is haunted by visions of wildlife in a vacant lot in Manhattan. In simple, crystalline prose, Lopez evokes a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, and a deep compassion for the human predicament.
Short Stories,Environment,Nature,Fiction,Writing,Essays,Science Nature,Science,Natural History,Westerns,Academic,School,Animals,Anthropology
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