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Crossing Open Ground (1988)

di Barry Lopez

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National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he's traversing the Arctic tundra or the deserts of the American Southwest, recalling the devastating beaching of forty-one sperm whales along the Oregon coast or reveling in the remarkable migrations of wild geese, Lopez shows readers the world's special places, its remarkable people, and stunning natural events. He thoughtfully explores humankind's place in this vast natural scheme, and opens our eyes to its breathtaking complexity.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.… (altro)
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this guy has soil.

("soul" autocorrected to "soil" and that seems appropriate) ( )
  stravinsky | Dec 28, 2020 |
After reading Arctic Dreams I wanted more of Barry, and I got it! Crossing Open Ground is a wonderful collection of essays that presents a real range of nonfiction writing going from more traditional long-form journalism, "A Presentation of Whales" and "A Reflection on White Geese," to a threaded collection of interviews, "The Bull Rider," to a more traditional essay, "The Passing Wisdom of Birds." Ultimately López maintains a consistent voice, one that is insightful, pensive, and deeply motivated by justice. While any collection can be a bit uneven there are some real gems in here for anyone interested in reading about our relationship to landscape, place, and that relationship within the context of narrative. ( )
  b.masonjudy | Apr 3, 2020 |
Because Barry Lopez is a good and evocative writer, I keep waiting for a book without animal cruelty.

This time he was the self appointed killer of seals, pretending that he just doesn't enjoy killing animals.
This time for "science," not for the ever numbing joy of hunting.

He never explains this allegedly primal urge to stalk and murder and the hideousness of an animal dying in a trap
which his friends enjoy.

Well, it always gives him something exciting to write about, like the totally hopeless whale story.

THE STONE HORSE begs for the aerial map...a splendid tale.

GEESE needs the original photographs...opening our eyes to a new world.

The book reads like an unconnected novel, keeping readers alert for the next adventure,
which many of us wish included ENLIGHTENMENT about the horrors of trapping, if not of hunting ( )
  m.belljackson | Nov 17, 2016 |
Very mixed bag of essays. Some were ivory-tower-on-dope pretentious, some were honest and fresh (I liked the one where he interviewed rodeo cowboys). Some folks would no doubt love it. I kinda skipped a couple when I felt like it was bogging down. ( )
1 vota Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |
Barry Lopez is a nature writer, who writes passionately and beautifully about the world around him. This is a collection of his essays written between 1978 and 1986, and one which I devoured, reading til well past my bedtime.

It makes for lovely reading. This was a book that I carried around the house with me on the off chance I could grab a second here or there to read it. The man's gift for words is obvious, and his passion and advocacy for wildlife and wild environs is admirable. He makes a great philosophical case for preserving tracts of wild space for their sakes alone, and that it is only once they are lost that we as humans will feel what their loss really means. ( )
  LovingLit | Jan 11, 2014 |
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National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he's traversing the Arctic tundra or the deserts of the American Southwest, recalling the devastating beaching of forty-one sperm whales along the Oregon coast or reveling in the remarkable migrations of wild geese, Lopez shows readers the world's special places, its remarkable people, and stunning natural events. He thoughtfully explores humankind's place in this vast natural scheme, and opens our eyes to its breathtaking complexity.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.

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