{"product_id":"books-field-notes-by-barry-lopez","title":"Field Notes","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez--the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eArctic Dreams \u003c\/i\u003eand one of our most admired writers--evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean in order to forge an indigenous connection to the American landscape. A paleontologist is haunted by visions of wildlife in a vacant lot in Manhattan. In simple, crystalline prose, Lopez evokes a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, and a deep compassion for the human predicament.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669470109969,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781400075126.jpg?v=1781508664","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-field-notes-by-barry-lopez","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}