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Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But... read more

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First Sentence

ON A WINTER AFTERNOON-a day without a sunrise, under a moon that had not set for six days-I stand on the frozen ocean 20 miles off Cape Mamen, Mackenzie King Island.

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  1. Barry H. Lopez (Author)
 

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