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Total pages original book: 176
Includes a PDF summary of 14 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 10M22S (2.8 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez-the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers-evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature. An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean in order to forge an indigenous connection to the American landscape. A paleontologist is haunted by visions of wildlife in a vacant lot in Manhattan. In simple, crystalline prose, Lopez evokes a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, and a deep compassion for the human predicament.
Other categories, genre or collection: Short Story Books, Contemporary Fiction, Natural History Books