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Barry Lopez


Barry Lopez is the author of six works of nonfiction and eight works of fiction. His writing appears regularly in Harper's, The Paris Review, DoubleTake, and The Georgia Review. He is the recipient of a National Book Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other honors. He lives in western Oregon.

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Vintage Lopez
Written by Barry Lopez

eBook | 208 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Nature - Essays
978-0-307-49289-0 (0-307-49289-3)

March 3, 2010 | $9.95

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Vintage Lopez
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307492890
Our Price: $9.95


Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.

“Lopez has such great narrative skill and uses his words so carefully the simple intensity is often nearly overwhelming.” —The Oregonian

Barry Lopez is an unparalleled explorer of the relationship between humanity and...

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Resistance
Written by Barry Lopez

eBook | 176 pages | Vintage | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-42747-2 (0-307-42747-1)

December 18, 2007 | $12.95

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Resistance
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307427472
Our Price: $12.95


From the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction—a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly “parties of interest” to the government tell their...

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Resistance
Written by Barry Lopez

Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-7665-9 (1-4000-7665-X)

June 14, 2005 | $16.00

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Resistance
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400076659
Our Price: $16.00
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction–a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly “parties of interest” to the government tell their...

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Field Notes
Written by Barry Lopez

Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4000-7512-6 (1-4000-7512-2)

June 8, 2004 | $17.50

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Field Notes
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400075126
Our Price: $17.50
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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...


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Vintage Lopez
Written by Barry Lopez

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage | Nature - Essays
978-1-4000-3398-0 (1-4000-3398-5)

January 6, 2004 | $14.95

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Vintage Lopez
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400033980
Our Price: $14.95
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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.

“Lopez has such great narrative skill and uses his words so carefully the simple intensity is often nearly overwhelming.” —The Oregonian

Barry Lopez is an unparalleled explorer of the relationship between humanity and...

Also available as an eBook.

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Arctic Dreams
Written by Barry Lopez

Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Vintage | Nature - Essays
978-0-375-72748-1 (0-375-72748-5)

October 2, 2001 | $18.00

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Arctic Dreams
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375727481
Our Price: $18.00
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Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.

Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history...


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Winter Count
Written by Barry Lopez

Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Nature - Essays
978-0-679-78141-7 (0-679-78141-2)

November 2, 1999 | $

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Winter Count
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679781417
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"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina."  --Los Angeles Times

"Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain."...


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Rediscovery of North America
Written by Barry Lopez

Trade Paperback | 64 pages | Vintage | Nature
978-0-679-74099-5 (0-679-74099-6)

September 1, 1992 | $14.00

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Rediscovery of North America
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679740995
Our Price: $14.00
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Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's...


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Crossing Open Ground
Written by Barry Lopez

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection
978-0-679-72183-3 (0-679-72183-5)

May 14, 1989 | $15.95

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Crossing Open Ground
Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679721833
Our Price: $15.95
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The author travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures.


              
              



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