Not many books of essays bring me to tears. I was affected in almost every synapse in my brain and every emotion in my heart; this was perfection in language, in heart, in science, in exploration and adventure, in deep, real connections between strangers, in anthropological examinations of tribe...
Barry Lopez's stories are wonderfully delicate. Not in the sense of being soft or sentimental or flowery, but its like they have a highly textured and fragile surface. The characters in his stories recognize that their life, all their hopes and dreams, depends upon the careful balance of this sur...
Best known today for his nature classic Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez showed off his prodigious gifts in this slim volume of short stories that came out five years earlier. Set principally in the wide open spaces of the American West, in the badlands of Wyoming and Montana and the Dakotas where only...