Horizonte

A vivid and poetic work that recalls the travels around the world and the human, animal and natural encounters that have shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us almost from pole to pole, from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on Earth, and over decades of life experience, Barry Lopez offers his most extensive and personal work to date, in a book that moves so indelible, through his travels, between six regions of the world: from western Oregon to the High Arctic, from Galapagos to the Kenyan desert, from Botany Bay, in Australia, to the ice shelves of Antarctica. Meanwhile, Lopez also investigates the long history of mankind's searches and explorations, including the prehistoric peoples who crossed the island of Skræling in northern Canada, the colonizers who plundered central Africa, an Englishman from the time of the Enlightenment. who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into the isolation of Japan and today's ecotourists in the tropics. Throughout his travels to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places in the world, and through the friendships he forges along the way with scientists, archaeologists, artists, and local residents, Lopez seeks meaning and purpose in a broken world.