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Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998-09-25
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 0374416133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A brilliantly written and totally original New World adventure" (Jean Craighead George), about two young men of the Northern Plains "who undertake a journey through unexplored wilderness to the tundra and back" ("The New Yorker"). Full color.
Author: Elys Dolan
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 0763671002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When a group of weasels plot to take over the world, they encounter some technical difficulties.
Author: Barry López
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-08-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780099546153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In About This Life. Barry Lopez takes us on a literal and figurative journey across the terrain of autobiography, assembling essays of wisdom and insight. Here is far flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galapagos, enigmatic Bonaire); a naturalist's contention (Why does our society inevitably strip political power from people with intimate knowledge of the land - small-scale farmers. Native Americans, Eskimos, cowboys?); and pure adventure (a dizzying series of around-the-world journeys with air freight - everything from penguins to pianos). And here, too, are seven exquisite memory pieces - hauntingly lyrical yet unsentimental recollections that represent Lopez's most personal work to date, and which will be read as classics of the personal essay for years to come.
Author: Rose Marie Grant
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A weaselly weasel, a sprinkling of Italian, and a gentle message about self-esteem-all in one gorgeous, funny picture book! Mamma mia! Perhaps trusting a weasel was not such a good idea. First he weaseled his way out of helping to sow and tend the corn, and now he's stolen the entire harvest! What's a little crow to do? She's too piccola to defend herself! So she finds a wolf-a big, snarling one-to help her. But is her new fierce friend really necessary? This piccola crow may find out that her grande spirit is all she needs. . . . Here is a playful romp through the Tuscan countryside-complete with a sprinkling of Italian and an important message about friendship and self-esteem.
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0525656219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From 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 author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos 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 humanity’s 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 today’s 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.
Author: Tor Seidler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1481410113
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published by HarperCollins in 1993.
Author: Joe Crowshoe
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Peigan elders Joe and Josephine Crowshoe belonged to a generation still bright with the traditional knowledge and deep memories of their grandparents. They lived under a paternalistic government system that denied them their language, culture, and religion. They reclaimed their heritage and shared it with the larger community receiving honours for their work and lifetime commitment as articulate representatives of Peigan stories, spirituality, and ceremonial practices. Weaving interviews together with archival photographs and documentation, interviewer Michael Ross tracks not only the life history of Joe and Josephine Crowshoe but also records stories of their culture. Weasel Tail opens a window onto a world and people who form a vital part of Alberta's history and future."--Pub. desc.
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1989-05-14
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0679721835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves the same invigorating spell as in his National Book Award-winning classic Arctic Dreams. Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures. Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a re-enchantment with the world that is vital to our sense of place, our well-being . . . our very survival.
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-07-23
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1668080028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forests, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of its indigenous communities, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, mystery, and wonder. Written in prose as pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-09-14
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 0307806464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's legacy while taking the first steps toward its redemption. Even as he draws a direct line between the atrocities of Spanish conquistadors and the ongoing pillage of our lands and waters, Barry Lopez challenges us to adopt an ethic that will make further depredations impossible. The Rediscovery of North America is a ringingly persuasive call for us, at long last, to make this country our home.
