• Crossing Open Ground

  • By: Barry Lopez
  • Narrated by: Barry Lopez
  • Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (63 ratings)

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Crossing Open Ground

By: Barry Lopez
Narrated by: Barry Lopez
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Publisher's summary

National Book Award winner Barry Lopez treks through the American Southwest and Alaska, discovering new meanings in both the world of nature - geese flying, wolf tracks - and the world of humans - artifacts of lost cultures. The land and humans, he believes, share a strong spiritual bond that echoes and impacts the universe's great rhythm of life.

Elegantly told against a haunting melodic backdrop, Crossing Open Ground's brilliant descriptions will sweep you into a new perspective - the land both gives us strength and molds our souls. Perceptive and poetic, these essays chart a course vital to our sense of place, to our well-being and to our survival.

©1994 Barry Holstun Lopez (P)1994, 2000 HighBridge Company

Critic reviews

"He makes the reader at home with himself and the world." (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Barry Lopez is the best nature writer of our decade, repeatedly reminding us of the ages-old ties between the wild places and humanity." (Sacremento Bee)

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Poetry or prose or both.

Haunting insights, memorable language touching many aspects of life, especially the natural world and our place in it.

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