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Nonfiction · Nature writing

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez
1986 · 474 pages

Five years in the high Arctic, among narwhals and muskoxen and light that behaves like nothing further south. Lopez asks what Westerners have wanted from that country, and what the wanting cost.

★ 5.6