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Horizon / Barry Lopez.

By: Publication details: London : Vintage, 2020.Description: xiv, 572 pages : maps ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781529111248
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 910.4 23
Summary: Taking us nearly from pole to pole -- from modern megacities to some of Earth's most remote regions -- Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging and personal work to date. Spanning decades of travel, Horizon describes journeys 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. Lopez also probes the history of humanity's quests and explorations, from prehistoric expeditions to today's ecotourism. He takes us to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, via friendships with scientists, archaeologists, artists and local residents, in a book that makes us see the world differently.
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First published in the UK by Bodley Head in 2019.

First published in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf in 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Taking us nearly from pole to pole -- from modern megacities to some of Earth's most remote regions -- Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging and personal work to date. Spanning decades of travel, Horizon describes journeys 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. Lopez also probes the history of humanity's quests and explorations, from prehistoric expeditions to today's ecotourism. He takes us to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, via friendships with scientists, archaeologists, artists and local residents, in a book that makes us see the world differently.

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