Arctic Dreams

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]

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]

References
  1. "National Book Awards – 1986". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
  2. http://www.pnba.org/uploads/2/6/5/9/26598517/1987bookawards.pdf
  3. "National Book Critics Circle Award past winners and finalists". Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  4. McFadden, Robert D. (December 27, 2020). "Barry Lopez, Lyrical Writer Who Was Likened to Thoreau, Dies at 75". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  5. Macfarlane, Robert (April 2, 2005). "Robert Macfarlane on Barry Lopez". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  6. Kakutani, Michiko (February 12, 1986). "Books of the Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
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