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Arctic Dreams

by Barry Lopez

“We so often hear about the Arctic in the context of threats: it’s disappearing, it’s changing, we’ll never see it again. I think it’s useful, though, to stop thinking of the Arctic only as a symbol of climate change and to remember it’s a real place.”

Climate Change and Uncertainty

Kate Marvel, Scientist

“This book changed my life and really made me become a writer, if any one book did. I remember finding a very battered secondhand copy of it in a bookshop in Vancouver while I was out climbing in the Rockies, in my early twenties.”

Wild Places

Robert Macfarlane, Literary Scholar

“Barry Lopez is an American man and in Arctic Dreams he describes the clarity of the landscape that has such a profound effect on the human spirit. Everyone says it has a profound effect.”

The Polar Regions

Sara Wheeler, Travel Writer

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