Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez

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Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez: Episode 4

Episode 4

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The magical mystery of icebergs and the breath-taking aurora borealis. Kyle Soller reads.

In Episode 4 of Arctic Dreams Lopez battles through stormy polar seas, marvelling at colossal ice-cliffs and mind-blown by the celestial light-show of the aurora borealis.

Kyle Soller reads Episode 4 of Barry Lopez’s modern classic of nature writing in which he continues to ponder the mystery and drama of the polar wilderness. Today icebergs, Arctic storms, the play of light on fresh meltwater and the astonishing spectacle that is the Northern Lights
In his breath-taking natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic, Lopez reveals the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man's imagination and ambition since time immemorial. .
Written well over a quarter of a century ago, Lopez's visionary account of his journey across the polar caps is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises. A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes, home to millions of diverse animals and people, it is also the backdrop to massive migrations by land, sea and air and the setting of epic exploratory voyages.

In timeless, prophetic prose, as meditative and memorable as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams poses fundamental questions about how we should cherish our ever more vulnerable planet.
Arctic Dreams was written by Barry Lopez.
It is read by Kyle Soller and abridged by Richard Hamilton
The producer is Karen Holden

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Factual: Science & Nature

Lopez's 1986 collection of lyrical essays on the nature and natural life of the Arctic.

Book of the Week. Lopez's 1986 collection of lyrical essays on the nature and natural life of the Arctic.

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