Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape is a 1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez. It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction,[1] the Christopher Medal, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award,[2] and an Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. It was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.[3]

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
AuthorBarry Lopez
LanguageEnglish
Set inAlaskan and Canadian Arctic
PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
Publication date
1986
AwardsNational Book Award for Nonfiction (1986)
ISBN9780684185781

Arctic Dreams (1986) describes five years in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic, where Lopez worked as a biologist.[4][5] Robert Macfarlane, reviewing the book in The Guardian, describes him as "the most important living writer about wilderness".[5] In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani argued that Arctic Dreams "is a book about the Arctic North in the way that Moby-Dick is a novel about whales".[6]

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  1. ^ "National Book Awards – 1986". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
  2. ^ "1987 Book Awards" (PDF). Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-09-14. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  3. ^ "National Book Critics Circle Award past winners and finalists". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  4. ^ McFadden, Robert D. (December 27, 2020). "Barry Lopez, Lyrical Writer Who Was Likened to Thoreau, Dies at 75". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Macfarlane, Robert (April 2, 2005). "Robert Macfarlane on Barry Lopez". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  6. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (February 12, 1986). "Books of the Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.