Arctic Dreams Explained

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
Author:Barry Lopez
Language:English
Set In:Alaskan and Canadian Arctic
Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub Date:1986
Awards:National Book Award for Nonfiction (1986)
Isbn:9780684185781

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape is a 1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez. It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction,[1] the Christopher Medal, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award,[2] and an Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. It was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.[3]

Arctic Dreams (1986) describes five years in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic, where Lopez worked as a biologist.[4] [5] Robert Macfarlane, reviewing the book in The Guardian, describes him as "the most important living writer about wilderness". In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani argued that Arctic Dreams "is a book about the Arctic North in the way that Moby-Dick is a novel about whales".[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Book Awards – 1986 . National Book Foundation . March 18, 2018.
  2. Web site: 1987 Book Awards . Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association . live . 2 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20150914164713/http://www.pnba.org/uploads/2/6/5/9/26598517/1987bookawards.pdf . 2015-09-14 .
  3. Web site: National Book Critics Circle Award past winners and finalists . National Book Critics Circle . March 6, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151018063346/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/ . October 18, 2015 . dead .
  4. News: McFadden. Robert D.. December 27, 2020. Barry Lopez, Lyrical Writer Who Was Likened to Thoreau, Dies at 75. en-US. The New York Times. live. December 27, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172135/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/obituaries/barry-lopez-dead.html. December 27, 2020. 0362-4331.
  5. News: Macfarlane. Robert. Robert Macfarlane (writer). April 2, 2005. Robert Macfarlane on Barry Lopez. en. The Guardian. live. December 27, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172219/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview35. December 27, 2020.
  6. News: Kakutani. Michiko. Michiko Kakutani. February 12, 1986. Books of the Times. en-US. The New York Times. live. December 27, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172135/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/books/books-of-the-times-339886.html. December 27, 2020. 0362-4331.

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