Books by Barry Holstun Lopez and Complete Book Reviews
Barry Holstun Lopez, Author Vintage Books USA $11 (64p) ISBN 978-0-679-74099-5
A National Book Award winner for Arctic Dreams, Lopez here offers a polemical assessment of the legacy of Columbus. (Sept.)
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Barry Holstun Lopez, Author Scribner Book Company $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-18578-1
This is one of the finest books ever written about the Far North, warmly appreciative and understanding of the natural forces that shape life in an austere landscape. The prize-winning author (Of Wolves and Men spent four years in Arctic regions:...
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Barry Holstun Lopez, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (159p) ISBN 978-0-679-43453-5
This is the third and apparently final book in a trilogy of story collections by the justly admired and National Book Award-winning author (the earlier volumes are Desert Notes and River Notes). Lopez's stories have in common an utterly fresh,...
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Barry Holstun Lopez, Author Harper Perennial $12 (176p) ISBN 978-0-380-72482-6
Final book in NBA winner Lopez's trilogy of short stories (Desert Notes; River Notes), exploring the sometimes magical interaction between people and the natural world. (Sept.)
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Barry Holstun Lopez, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-43454-2
Contemplating forces physical and metaphysical within the natural landscape, veteran author and National Book Award-winner Lopez (Arctic Dreams, etc.) here taps personal and collective memory to create an intimate history of man and place. In these...
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Barry Holstun Lopez, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (176p) ISBN 978-0-679-43455-9
Best known for Arctic Dreams and other book-length essays about the natural world, Lopez is also a prolific and eclectic fiction writer (Field Notes; Lessons from the Wolverine). In this new collection of 13 stories, with settings ranging from the...
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Barry Holstun Lopez, Author, Tom Pohrt, Illustrator, Tracey Campbell Pearson, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $9.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-41613-3
In this original folktale inspired by the North American Plains people, Crow and Weasel come of age together as they make a voyage into unknown territory, made vivid in Pohrt's well-researched paintings. All ages. (Sept.)
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Barry Holstun Lopez, Author, Alan Magee, Illustrator, Alan Magee, With . Knopf $18 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4220-3
Lopez, author of the National Book Award–winning Arctic Dreams
and numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction (Light Action in the Caribbean
; Of Wolves and Men
; etc.), explores opposition and defiance—to globalization, xenophobia,
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Thomas J. Lyon, Author, Barry Holstun Lopez, Author, Terry Tempest Williams, Author Texas A&M University Press $35 (224p) ISBN 978-0-89096-511-5
The best selections in this collection of 20 essays, tales and explorations (most reprinted from the journal Witness , which Stine edits) fulfill Lyon's belief that nature writing ``reminds us of . . . the simple capacity of being here and...
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