Horizon

Taking us nearly from pole to pole – from modern megacities to some of the earth’s most remote regions -- and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that describes his travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica.

Lopez also probes the long history of humanity's quests and explorations, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today's ecotourists in the tropics.

Throughout his journeys – to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe – and via friendships with scientists, archaeologists, artists and local residents, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

Horizon is a revelatory, epic work that voices concern but also hope – a book that makes you see the world differently, and that is the crowning achievement by one of America's great voices.

Ne duce aproape de la pol la pol - de la megalopoli moderne la unele dintre cele mai indepartate regiuni ale Pamantului - si de-a lungul a zeci de ani de experienta traita, Barry Lopez ne ofera cea mai indepartata lucrare personala pana in prezent, intr-o carte care descrie calatoriile sale la sase regiuni ale lumii: de la vestul Oregonului la Marea Arctica; de la Galápagos la desertul kenyan; de la Golful Botanicii din Australia pana in cele din urma, de neuitat, rafturile de gheata din Antarctica.Lopez cerceteaza, de asemenea, lunga istorie a cautarilor si explorarilor umanitatii, inclusiv popoarele preistorice care au calatorit pe Insula Skraeling din nordul Canadei, colonistii care au jefuit Africa Centrala, o iluminare -era englez care a navigat in Pacific, un emisar nativ american care si-a gasit drumul in Japonia izolationista si ecoturistii de astazi la tropice. Pe parcursul calatoriilor sale - in unele dintre cele mai fierbinti, mai reci si mai pustii locuri de pe glob - si prin intermediul prieteniei impreuna cu oameni de stiinta, arheologi, artisti si rezidenti locali, Lopez cauta sensul si scopul intr-o lume sparta. Orizontul este o lucrare revelatoare, epica, care exprima ingrijorare, dar si speranta - o carte care te face sa vezi lumea diferit si care este incununarea realizare de catre una dintre marile voci ale Americii.