Wild Wild Life: The 13 Best Memoirs About the Outdoors

Barry Lopez has written extensively about the natural world and his experiences in it, to great acclaim: Arctic Dreams won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1986. In this book, Lopez charts the vast array of flora and fauna that can be found in landscapes throughout the Arctic; the resulting work gives a powerful sense of place, and of the hold that those landscapes have exerted on the people who have encountered them.

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