Arctic Dreams

**This *New York Times*–bestselling exploration of the Arctic, a National Book Award winner, is “one of the finest books ever written about the far North” (*Publishers Weekly*). **

“The nation’s premier nature writer” travels to a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human history (*San Francisco Chronicle*). The Arctic has for centuries been a destination for the most ambitious explorers—a place of dreams, fears, and awe-inspiring spectacle. This “dazzling” account by the author of *Of Wolves and Men* takes readers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of one of the world’s last frontiers (*The** New York Times*).

Based on Barry Lopez’s years spent traveling the Arctic regions in the company of Eskimo hunting parties and scientific expeditions alike, *Arctic Dreams *investigates the unique terrain of the human mind, thrown into relief against the vastness of the tundra and the frozen ocean. Eye-opening and profoundly moving, it is a magnificent appreciation of how wilderness challenges and inspires us.

Renowned environmentalist and author of *Desert Solitaire* Edward Abbey has called *Arctic Dreams* “a splendid book . . . by a man who is both a first-rate writer and an uncompromising defender of the wild country and its native inhabitants”—and the* New Yorker *hails it as a “landmark” work of travel writing. A vivid, thoughtful, and atmospheric read, it has earned multiple prizes, including the National Book Award, the Christopher Medal, the Oregon Book Award, and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

*This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.*