Author: Barry Lopez
Narrator: Barry Lopez
Abridged: 2 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 03/01/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, Nature
Barry Lopez's (1945-2020) books include Light Action in the Caribbean, About This Life, the novella-length fable Crow and Weasel, and Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award. He traveled extensively in remote regions of the world, and his work has been widely translated and anthologized. He was a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science foundations; the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the John Burroughs and John Hay medals; and other honors.
As an collection of journalistic pieces and essays, Crossing Open Ground is slightly less consistent in its overwhelming awe than Lopez' other works. His earlier, more explicitly journalistic pieces seem less impressive than the later works, which tend to be the ones that spend more time drawing con......more
Barry Lopez was a gifted writer (1945-2020), his words are poetry, "his tone is intimate," and he manages to walk that fine line we all need to learn to walk, where we can disagree without judging or alienating. His is a gentle spirit, in tune with the wonder of the world, of nature and of our place......more
Lopez has shown me an entire universe in a stone, a creation as large as the earth in a grain of sand. Some phenomena are too complex for me to understand through direct observation; but I can understand them through analogy. This is what Lopez has done for me in Crossing Open Ground. I met Lopez a......more