“[Barry Lopez] can bring the light of an arctic summer’s midnight to your living room.”
—The Columbus Dispatch
“Lopez writes with a photographer’s keen eye, a novelist’s sure-handed way with detail and a biologist’s attention to scientific accuracy.”
—Newsday
“About This Life is a shimmering window on the richness of the world [and] the vagaries of memory.”
—Portland Oregonian
“Whether he is visiting remote islands or sites closer to home, Lopez provides a sincere look at what is marvelous about his surroundings, and his book admirably adds to what he calls a literature of hope.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Curiosity, fresh insight, and luminous, precise prose … is generously on display here.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Lopez is a careful and caring writer … he truly shows us the world’s magic.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“[Lopez has] that rarest of keen eyes, the one that can home in on the face in the mirror and see truly.”
—The Denver Post