Horizon

ISBN: 0394585828

Author: Lopez, Barry

Condition: New

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:THE NEW YORK TIMES NPR THE GUARDIANFrom pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the authors travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galpagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica.Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanitys thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and todays ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.