Arctic Dreams

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
AuthorBarry Lopez
LanguageEnglish
Set inAlaskan and Canadian Arctic
PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
Publication date
1986
AwardsNational Book Award for Nonfiction (1986)
ISBN9780684185781

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".[5] 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]

References

  1. ^ "National Book Awards – 1986". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
  2. ^ "1987 Book Awards" (PDF). Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-09-14. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  3. ^ "National Book Critics Circle Award past winners and finalists". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  4. ^ McFadden, Robert D. (December 27, 2020). "Barry Lopez, Lyrical Writer Who Was Likened to Thoreau, Dies at 75". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Macfarlane, Robert (April 2, 2005). "Robert Macfarlane on Barry Lopez". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  6. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (February 12, 1986). "Books of the Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
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