商品简介 The Arctic is the youngest ecosystem in the world--and also one of the most perilous. Only the hardiest, most well-adapted creatures can survive its harsh weather and mysterious, mercurial behavior. In this groundbreaking classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strange and stunted forests, its icy deserts, its frozen seas. Lemmings, muskox, polar bears, narwhals and other rare beasts of the region come alive through Lopez's compassionate and nuanced observations. And as he examines the history and the culture of the Eskimo natives, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the brutal Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, beguilement, and wonder. Written in prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless meditation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and desires, and to haunt the human imagination.
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