Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
An odyssey across an arctic landscape celebrates earth, sea, ice, and the animals and people who live there and discusses human beings' fascination with the area's wonders. Reissue. NYT.
An odyssey across an arctic landscape celebrates earth, sea, ice, and the animals and people who live there and discusses human beings' fascination with the area's wonders. Reissue. NYT.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780684185781 (0684185784)
Publish date: March 1st 1986
Publisher: Charles Scribner & Sons
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Science Nature
Arctic Dreams, currently 1.99 Amazon.com summer special, may have won the 1986 National Book Award, but I think I have to join the dissent crowd on this (current) 4.19-rated non-fiction work. it might be a little hasty to say that standards have changed dramatically in merely 27 years, but it does s...