Horizon - Barry Lopez

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Résumé :
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author's travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Gal?pagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica.

Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity's thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today's ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

Biographie:
Barry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including Horizon; several story collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist; and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020.

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Sommaire:
Author's Note
Prologue

Introduction: Looking for a Ship
1. Mamaroneck
2. To Go/To See
3. Remember
4. Talismans

CAPE FOULWEATHER
Coast of Oregon
Eastern Shore of the North Pacific Ocean
Western North America

SKRAELING ISLAND 
Mouth of Alexandra Fjord
East Coast of Ellesmere Island
Nunavut
Canada

PUERTO AYORA 
Isla Santa Cruz
Archipi?lago de Col?n
Eastern Equatorial Pacific

JACKAL CAMP 267
Turkwel River Basin
Western Lake Turkana Uplands
Eastern Equatorial Africa

PORT ARTHUR TO BOTANY BAY
State of Tasmania Northern Shore of the Southern Ocean
Southeastern Australia
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State of New South Wales
Western Shore of the South Pacific

GRAVES NUNATAKS TO PORT FAMINE ROAD 
Queen Maud Mountains
Central Transantarctic Mountains
Northern Edge of the Polar Plateau
Antarctica
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Brunswick Peninsula
Shore of the Strait of Magellan
Southern Chile

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Scientific Binomials
Overview Maps
Acknowledgments
Index