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ohsarajay 's review for:
Arctic Dreams
by Barry Lopez
What a book. It doesn't just answer questions I didn't know I had (what exactly is a north pole? How do muskoxen go about life? What colour is ice over dark water in a blue sky?) but it asked a lot of questions that I appreciated - how do you live well on the land? What is our obligation to it? How do we reach a point where dignity of living beings is innate and perceived, not circumstantial and invented?
"Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard." Simple, but not easy at all. I did often wonder about all the things that might have changed about it in the 40 years since the present tense parts of this book, and there's a haunting thought.
I did bump up against some of its finer points, and some of the typographical errors in this edition are a real shame. But what a book. What an approach to land and geography and the inhabitants.
"Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard." Simple, but not easy at all. I did often wonder about all the things that might have changed about it in the 40 years since the present tense parts of this book, and there's a haunting thought.
I did bump up against some of its finer points, and some of the typographical errors in this edition are a real shame. But what a book. What an approach to land and geography and the inhabitants.