Arctic Dreams
1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape is a 1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez. It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction,[1] the Christopher Medal, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award,[2] and an Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. It was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.[3]
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| Author | Barry Lopez |
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| Language | English |
| Set in | Alaskan and Canadian Arctic |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Awards | National Book Award for Nonfiction (1986) |
| ISBN | 9780684185781 |
Arctic Dreams (1986) describes five years in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic, where Lopez worked as a biologist.[4][5] Robert Macfarlane, reviewing the book in The Guardian, describes him as "the most important living writer about wilderness".[5] In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani argued that Arctic Dreams "is a book about the Arctic North in the way that Moby-Dick is a novel about whales".[6]
