About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory

by Barry Lopez (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $6.36

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.21

  Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar. This collection of essays stems directly from that philosophy. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galapagos, enigmatic Bonaire); a naturalist's concerns (for endangered communities as well as their land) and pure adventure. Here, too, are seven exquisite memory pieces; beautiful, meditative recollections that will stand as classic examples of the personal essay.